Study Hawkins & Booth (2005): study US 1980
- Public
- Couples, USA, followed 12 years, 1980-1992
- Survey name
- US-Longitudinal study Instability of marriage over life course
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 1150
- Non Response
- 35%
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Children
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Number of children at T1(1980), T2(1982), T3(1988), and T4(1992)
- Distribution
- M=.68, SD=.56, Range 0-3
- Operationalization
- The average number of children living in the respondent's household over the course of the study.(12 year interval)
Observed Relation with Happiness
(T4 happiness controled for T1 happiness to assess change))
Beta additionally controlling for:
- Continuously married
- Divorced/Unmarried
- Divorced/Remarried
- Age
- Gender
- White
- Years of education
- Family income
- Stepchild
- Religiosity
- Remarried
- Cohabited