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
- Extraversion
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Assessed at T1 (1987) and T3 (1991)
- Operationalization
- Selfreport on 5 questions:
- It is easy for me to liven things up
- I am a talkative person
- People think I am a very lifely person
- I can easy lighten up a boring party
- I tend to stay in the background in the company of other people.
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
- age
- age²
- gender
- education
- cohort 1965 vs cohort 1961
- cohort 1969 vs cohort 1961
- mental health
- neuroticism
- first job
- no job
- 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 gender