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Correlational findings

Study Keyes (1998): study US Wisconsin 1994

Public
18+ aged, general public, Dane County, Wisconsin USA, 1994
Sample
Respondents
N = 373
Non Response
37%
Assessment
Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)

Correlate

Authors's Label
Social Actualization
Our Classification
Error Estimates
Metric Loading ranging from 0.54 to 1.0 Validity coefficient for the scoring ranged from 0.46 to 0.62 Alpha reliabiliy 0 .69
Distribution
M = 32.1    SD = 5.7
Operationalization
Respondents indicated (dis)agreement with the following statements:
a) Society has stopped making progress (-)
b) Society is not improving for people like you (-)
c) Social institutions (e.g. government & law) do not make your life better (-)
d) Society is continually evolving (+)
e) Society is a productive place for people to live in (+)
f) There is no social progress (-)
g) The world is becoming a better place for everyone (+)
Items with (-) are reverse scored on scale ranging from 1.strongly 2.moderately 3.slightly disagree 4.slightly 5.moderately 6.Strongly agree

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-m-sq-v-4-a r = +.26 p < .01 O-SLu-h-sq-v-4-a r = +.16 p < .01