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

Interview: face-to-face
Face to face interviews, questionnaires, telephone interviews (1999)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Neuroticism

Our Classification

Remarks

Assessed at T1(1987), T3(1991)

Operationalization

Selfreport on the following questions:
- I worry more than is good for me
- I am very sensitive: I'm also bothered by small things.
- I am nervous very often .
- I bcome upset when I have to do something I cannot handle.
- It takes me a long time to forget a disappointment.
- I am a bundle of nerves
- I feel I am very tense

Rated 1 not applicable at all, to 7 completely applicable). The answers were summed up and changed to a 10 point scale.

Observed Relation with Happiness