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. 2014 Sep 13;123(3):625–660. doi: 10.1007/s11205-014-0753-0

Table 3.

Reliability ratios across waves of experienced subjective well-being measures

ELSA Gallup HWB12
n = 443 n = 477 n = 415
Happy 0.50 0.36 0.49
Interested 0.49 0.32 0.42
Content 0.40 0.39 0.54
Joyful 0.46 0.34 0.53
Enthusiastic 0.45 0.34 0.53
Frustrated 0.44 0.45 0.49
Sad 0.43 0.45 0.51
Angry 0.33 0.28 0.43
Tired 0.45 0.49 0.47
Stressed 0.43 0.41 0.50
Lonely 0.45 0.45 0.45
Worried 0.45 0.45 0.52
Bored 0.38 0.28 0.47
Pain 0.50 0.49 0.52
Depressed 0.55 0.41 0.59

Underlined correlations refer to items that have been added to the original scale; correlations in bold indicate the highest and lowest values in each column