Study VanSluijs (2004): study NL 1987
- Public:
- Young adults, followed from age 18 to 30, The Netherlands, 1987-1999
- Sample:
- Respondents:
- N = 836
- Non Response:
- 36,6% (baseline)
- Assessment:
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Interview: face-to-face
Face to face interviews, questionnaires, telephone interviews (1999)
Correlate
- Authors's label
- Birth cohort
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Year of Birth:
1 1961
2 1965
3 1969
Observed Relation with Happiness
Mt SD Mt SD Mt SD Mt SD
1961 7,43 1,94 7,59 1,74 7,53 1,81 7,55 1,88
1965 7,07 1,98 7,50 1,84 7,53 1,93 7,80 1,64
1969 7,24 1,80 7,31 1,75 7,40 1,80 7,84 1,54
B controlled for personal characteristics :
- age
- age²
- gender
- education
- cohort 1969 vs cohort 1961
- mental health
- neuroticism
- extraversion
- first job
- no job as yet
- left parental home
- living together/marriage first partner
- divorce from first partner
- living together/marriage second partner
- having first child
- first paid job
- no job
- leaving parental home
- living together/marriage first partner
- divorce from first partner
- living together/marriage second partner
- having first child
Unaffected by squaring of the above variables
B controlled for personal characteristics :
- age
- age²
- gender
- education
- cohort 1965 vs cohort 1961
- mental health
- neuroticism
- extraversion
- first job
- no job as yet
- left parental home
- living together/marriage first partner
- divorce from first partner
- living together/marriage second partner
- having first child
- first paid job
- no job
- leaving parental home
- living together/marriage first partner
- divorce from first partner
- living together/marriage second partner
- having first child
Unaffected by squaring of the above variables
Unaffected by gender
B's indicate average difference between age categories over this 12 year period