Christodoulou Christopher, Schneider Stefan, Stone Arthur A
Department of Neurology, Stony Brook University, HSC T12-033 B, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8121, office: 631 444-8068,
Department of Psychiatry, Stony Brook University, 125 Putnam Hall, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8790, 631 632-3114,
Soc Indic Res. 2014 Feb 1;115(3):907-917. doi: 10.1007/s11205-013-0240-z.
There has been increasing interest in the measurement of hedonic well-being (HWB), due in part to its broad implications in areas such as health and society. The day reconstruction method (DRM) is a validated technique assessing HWB and daily activities using instructions that help respondents recover their experiences from the previous day, thus reducing recall bias. Unfortunately, large-scale surveys are typically not able to implement the time-consuming DRM procedure; instead, they rely on single-item or very brief questionnaire assessment of HWB and time usage. Despite their wide use, brief questionnaires have rarely been compared to the DRM, which could provide validation of these short assessments. In the present study we compared these two questionnaire formats in 45 adults who completed both a DRM and a "hybrid" short form (HSF) questionnaire that included a very brief procedure to reconstruct yesterday's events. Results were that the mean HSF ratings tended to overestimate HWB in comparison to the DRM, though effects were generally small to moderate. With regard to estimates of time spent on daily activities, the HSF also differed from the DRM, though with generally small to moderate effects. Correlations between estimates indicated that the HSF explained an average of almost half the variance in the DRM ratings for both HWB (s ranging from .52 to .97) and time use (s ranging from .43 to .85). In general, HSF ratings displayed considerable overlap with those of the DRM though the brief instructions apparently did not eliminate recall bias in the shorter questionnaire.
人们对享乐幸福感（HWB）测量的兴趣与日俱增，部分原因在于其在健康和社会等领域具有广泛影响。日重建法（DRM）是一种经过验证的技术，它通过帮助受访者回忆前一天经历的指令来评估享乐幸福感和日常活动，从而减少回忆偏差。不幸的是，大规模调查通常无法实施耗时的日重建法程序；相反，它们依赖于对享乐幸福感和时间使用情况的单项或非常简短的问卷调查评估。尽管简短问卷被广泛使用，但很少有人将其与日重建法进行比较，而日重建法可以为这些简短评估提供验证。在本研究中，我们对45名成年人进行了这两种问卷形式的比较，这些成年人既完成了日重建法，也完成了一份“混合”简短问卷（HSF），该问卷包含一个非常简短的程序来重建昨天的事件。结果显示，与日重建法相比，HSF评分均值往往高估了享乐幸福感，不过影响一般较小到中等。关于日常活动时间的估计，HSF也与日重建法不同，尽管影响一般较小到中等。估计值之间的相关性表明，HSF平均解释了日重建法中享乐幸福感评分（相关系数范围为0.52至0.97）和时间使用评分（相关系数范围为0.43至0.85）中近一半的方差。总体而言，HSF评分与日重建法评分有相当大的重叠，不过简短的指令显然并没有消除较短问卷中的回忆偏差。
