Methodology + Procedures

• M+P

  • Interviews + Questionnaires
  • Observations
  • Correlations
  • Reviews
• Interviews + Questionnaires

  • One way to assess happiness is consider a person‘s sense of their own happiness - subjective well-being
  • Done by interviewing people using a simple closed question ‘How satisfied are you with your life as a whole these days?’
  • Questionnaires can also be used. In both cases a quantitative measure is produced to represent happiness
• Observations

  • A way to sample people‘s behaviour
• Correlation

  • Another way to understand happiness is to consider what factors co-vary with it. Not always clear what is the cause and which is the effect
• Reviews

  • Study is a review of other research. Come are reviews and some are meta-analyses