Table 3.

Reliability ratios across waves of experienced subjective well-being measures

	ELSA n = 443	Gallup n = 477	HWB12 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