# Happiness Diary Data ## Overview This component contains the data from an online diary study (conducted with the help of [formr][1]) on various aspects of well-being and personality, as well as the necessary documentation to understand the data. The study was conducted in German and consisted of three parts: - an initial questionnaire (**"start"**; basic demographics, satisfaction with life, ratings of the roles of various life domains, meaning in life questionnaire, 30 item version of the BFI 2, positive and negative affect in general, self-insight scale) - diary questionnaires repeated every 3 days (**"daily"**; satisfaction with life, positive and negative affect, domain satisfaction) - a final questionnaire (**"end"**, satisfaction with life, ratings of the roles of various life domains, meaning in life questionnaire, positive and negative affect in general) Overall, 539 people finished the start questionnaire; 6.181 diary entries were provided; and 362 people finished the end questionnaire. For details, see also registration here: https://osf.io/jpxmn, or documentation provided in this component. ## Files provided ### Documentation - Data cleaning for data sharing.R: This is the script that was run to download the data from formr and to generate the data files included in this component - Study Overview: A very brief overview of the study design (recruitment, design, included measures) - codebook_start, codebook_daily, codebook_end: codebook including English translation of all items (refer to the second sheet of each Excel-file for the response scales) - formr_start, formr_daily, formr_end: the original formr item sheets (you can import these into formr to generate the surveys) ### Data files - start.csv: Data from the start questionnaire - daily.csv: Data from the diary questionnaire - end.csv: Data from the end questionnaire [1]: https://formr.org/