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Happiness in texting times

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, September 2015
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Title
Happiness in texting times
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, September 2015
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01436
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Authors

David Hevey, Karen Hand, Malcolm MacLachlan

Abstract

Assessing national levels of happiness has become an important research and policy issue in recent years. We examined happiness and satisfaction in Ireland using phone text messaging to collect large-scale longitudinal data from 3,093 members of the general Irish population. For six consecutive weeks, participants' happiness and satisfaction levels were assessed. For four consecutive weeks (weeks 2-5) a different random third of the sample got feedback on the previous week's mean happiness and satisfaction ratings. Text messaging proved a feasible means of assessing happiness and satisfaction, with almost three quarters (73%) of participants completing all assessments. Those who received feedback on the previous week's mean ratings were eight times more likely to complete the subsequent assessments than those not receiving feedback. Providing such feedback data on mean levels of happiness and satisfaction did not systematically bias subsequent ratings either toward or away from these normative anchors. Texting is a simple and effective means to collect population level happiness and satisfaction data.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 6%
Unknown 16 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 24%
Student > Master 3 18%
Student > Bachelor 2 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 6%
Other 3 18%
Unknown 2 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 9 53%
Environmental Science 1 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 6%
Physics and Astronomy 1 6%
Other 2 12%
Unknown 2 12%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 October 2022.
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#4,622,082
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#7,822
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#55,434
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#140
of 554 outputs
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