The pattern of human concerns

By H. Cantril. 1965

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Fused Lasso Additive Model (2014, background): “ing the conditional relationships between a country-level happiness index and gross national income, as well as 11 other country-level predictors. The happiness index is the average of Cantril Scale [Cantril, 1965] responses of approximately 3000 residents in each country obtained in Gallup World Po”
Income's association with judgments of life versus feelings. (2010, background): “Cantril’s Ladder (1965) asks respondents to evaluate their life on a scale from 0 (worst possible) to 10 (best possible).”
Well-being in competitive sports—The feel-good factor? A review of conceptual considerations of well-being (2011, background): “While the ‘good life’ of humans has engaged philosophers for centuries (see review by Ryan & Deci, 2001 ), the research interest in human well-being began after 1960 (eg, Cantril, 1965 ; Gurin, Veroff, & Feld, 1960 ).”
How important is methodology for the estimates of the determinants of happiness (2004, background): “Cantril (1965) developed a question for life satisfaction.”
ASSESSING MULTIDIMENSIONAL WELL‐BEING: DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE I COPPE SCALE (2015, methodology): “The I COPPE Scale comprises 21 items based on the Cantril ladder method of the Self-Anchoring Striving Scale (Cantril, 1965).”
Relationship between Financial Stress and Workplace Absenteeism of Credit Counseling Clients (2006, unknown): “Financial satisfaction was assessed with a 10-point stair-step scale, a derivative of an 11-point self-anchoring ladder originally developed by Cantril (1965) .”
Theoretical Perspectives Guiding QOL Indicator Projects (2011, methodology): “…the Satisfaction with Life Scale (Pavot and Diener 1993; Pavot et al. 1991), the Congruity Life Satisfaction measure (Meadow et al. 1992; Sirgy et al. 1995), the Delighted-Terrible Scale (Andrew and Withey 1976), the Cantril Ladder (Cantril 1965), the Happiness Scale (Veenhoven 1996), and the like.”
The Influence of Environment and Personality on the Affective and Cognitive Component of Subjective Well-being (2008, background): “Since the seminal contributions of Andrews and Withey (1976) and Cantril (1965) , the scientific study of happiness has become a popular topic in the social sciences (Diener et al. 1999; Frey and Stutzer 2002; Kahneman 1999; Michalos 1985; Veenhoven 1994).”
Mental Illness and Mental Health: The Two Continua Model Across the Lifespan (2009, methodology): “In the social sciences, this tradition dates back to survey research in the 1960s and 1970s, when scholars started to study the quality of American life from the perspective of citizens themselves (Andrews and Withey 1976; Bradburn 1969; Campbell et al. 1976; Cantril 1965; Gurin et al. 1960).”
Debt and Subjective Well-being: The Other Side of the Income-Happiness Coin (2016, methodology): “Life Satisfaction was assessed using the Cantril self-anchoring striving scale (Cantril 1965), asking participants ‘‘Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to ten at the top.”