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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 Coherence
Our Classification
Error Estimates
Metric Loading ranging from .92 to 1.3 Validity Coefficients ranging from .43 to .55 Alpha Reliability .77
Distribution
M = 28.3   SD = 6.4
Operationalization
Respondents indicated (dis)agreement with the following statements:
a) The world is too complex for you (-)
b) Only scientists understand how the world works (-)
c) You cannot make sense of what's going on in the world (-)
d) Most cultures are so strange that you cannot understand them (-)
e) It is worthwhile to understand the world you live in (+)
f) It is hard to predict what will happen next in society (-)
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 = +.20 p < .01 O-SLu-h-sq-v-4-a r = +.16 p < .01