McLanahan & Adams (1989): study US 1957
Publication
- Author(s):
- McLanahan, S.S.; Adams, J.
- Title:
- The Effect of Children on Adults Psychological Well-Being 1957 - 1976.
- Source:
- Social Forces, 1989, Vol. 68, 124 - 146
Investigation
- Public
- 21+ aged, general public, USA, 1957-1976
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 4664
- Non Response
- ± 30%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say that you are....?
3 very happy
2 pretty happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Remarks:
- Range 0-1 (1= very happy: 0= pretty happy, not too happy).
1957: M=0.36 1976: M=0.32
See VEROF 1981 for distribution on range 1-3 - Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 0.32 -
- SD:
- - -