The ‘10 Excess’ Phenomenon in Responses to Survey Questions on Happiness

Happiness in nations is typically measured in surveys using a single question. A common question is: ‘all things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days on a scale from 0 to 10?’. The responses typically follow a uni-modal distribution with highest freq...

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Autores principales: Brulé, Gaël, Veenhoven, Ruut
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Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357485/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28366979
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1265-x
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description Happiness in nations is typically measured in surveys using a single question. A common question is: ‘all things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days on a scale from 0 to 10?’. The responses typically follow a uni-modal distribution with highest frequencies between 5 and 8. Yet in some nations, the percentage of 10 responses stands out and is higher than the percentage of 9 responses. This is particularly present in Latin America and in the Middle East. In this paper we explore the prevalence of the ‘10-excess’ pattern and check some possible explanations. We conclude that the 10-excess phenomenon is partly due to cultural influence.
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spelling pubmed-53574852017-03-30 The ‘10 Excess’ Phenomenon in Responses to Survey Questions on Happiness Brulé, Gaël Veenhoven, Ruut Soc Indic Res Article Happiness in nations is typically measured in surveys using a single question. A common question is: ‘all things considered, how satisfied or dissatisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days on a scale from 0 to 10?’. The responses typically follow a uni-modal distribution with highest frequencies between 5 and 8. Yet in some nations, the percentage of 10 responses stands out and is higher than the percentage of 9 responses. This is particularly present in Latin America and in the Middle East. In this paper we explore the prevalence of the ‘10-excess’ pattern and check some possible explanations. We conclude that the 10-excess phenomenon is partly due to cultural influence. Springer Netherlands 2016-03-30 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5357485/ /pubmed/28366979 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-016-1265-x Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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