Study McKinley Runyan (1980): study US 1932

Public

Highschool pupils, Oakland, USA, 1932, followed from age 12 to 38, 1959

Sample

Respondents

N = 91

Non Response

Assessment

Multiple assesment methods
Lengthy, tests and school photographs. Participants were asked to rate the level of satisfaction in each year of their past life on a graph with values ranging from 1 (low) to 9 (high) and to write in the events and conditions associated with these ratings ("We would like for you to think over your life and then rate each year as to whether it was a high or a low point in your life, i.e., your overall feeling, not necessarily financial success or health, etc., but generally speaking feeling of well-being however determined".)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Upward social mobility

Our Classification

Remarks

Mobile Ss only.

Distribution

Downward: N=14
Upward: N= 53
Non-mobile: N=24

Operationalization

Mobility is difference between social class of father in 1929 and own class in 1958.
1. Downwardly or non-mobile.
2. Upwardly mobile.

Observed Relation with Happiness