Abbey et al. (1983): study US Detroit 1984
Publication
- Author(s):
- Abbey, A.; Brickman, P.; Dunkel-Schetter, C.
- Title:
- Handling the Stress of Looking for a Job in Law School: The Relationships between Intrinsic Motivation, Internal Attributions, Relations with Others and Happiness.
- Source:
- Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 1983, Vol. 4, 263 - 278
Investigation
- Public
- Tranquilizer users, Detroit, USA, 1984
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 675
- Non Response
- 40%
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
4 structured interviews at 6 week intervals
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on 5 questions, repeated every week during 24 weeks:
A. "How do you feel about your life as a whole?"
1 terrible
2
3
4
5
6
7 delighted
B. "Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say you are........?";
3 very happy
2 pretty happy
1 not too happy
C. To what extent have the five areas of your life been what you wanted it to be? (refers to self, personal life, work life and health)
5 all
4
3
2
1 not at all
D. "How much have you really enjoyed your life as a whole?"
1 not at all,
2
3
4
5 a great deal
E. "How much has your life as a whole made you feel emotionally upset?"
1 not at all
2
3
4
5 a great deal
Summation: A+B+C+D+E - Classification:
- M-ACO-cw-mq-*-20-a
- Author's label:
- Quality of life-as-a-whole
- Error estimates:
- Results suggest that stress and depression are negatively related to life quality, while internal control, performance and social support are positively related to life quality. These findings support the hyupothesis that life quality evalutations and psychosocial factors are principally concurrent phenomena. There was a tendency for positive psychological phenomena to relate most strongly to positive affect life quality and negative psychological phenomena to relate most strongly to negative affect life quality, suggesting that those are somewhat independent components of well-being.
Correlational Findings
Satisfaction with multiple domains of life