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Correlational findings

Study Kousha & Mohseni (2000): study IR 1995

Public
Residents big city (Tehran), Iran, 1995-97
Sample
Respondents
N = 1561
Non Response
4,8%
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview

Correlate

Authors's Label
Education
Our Classification
Remarks
actual numbers, revised by author
Distribution
    1995: 1=119, 2=125, 3=60, 4=166
    1997: 1=204, 2=431, 3=72, 4=327
Operationalization
1= less than high school
2= high school grad.
3= two years college
4= college grad. and up

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab DM = ns             1995    M      S.D.          
             1=    1,84    0,48
             2=    1,77    0,31
             3=    1,81    0,36
             4=    1,75    0,31 O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab DM = ns             1997    M      S.D.          
             1=    1,73    0,38
             2=    1,83    0,40
             3=    1,84    0,45
             4=    1,86    0,34 O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab D% = ns              1995
                   very    fairly  not at all
                   happy   happy   happy
                     %       %        %   
             1=    13,7    39,8     26,5
             2=     6,6    63,9     29,5
             3=    10,2    61,0     28,8
             4=     6,2    62,7     31,1 O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab D% = ns              1997
                   very    fairly  not at all
                   happy   happy   happy
                     %       %        %   
             1=     9,0    55,2     35,8
             2=    12,8    57,4     29,8
             3=    15,7    52,9     31,4
             4=    11,2    63,6     25,2 O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab r = -.06 ns              1995 O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ab r = +.06 p < .05              1997