Correlational findings | World Database of Happiness

Study Csikszentmihalyi & Hunter (2003): study US 1998

Public:: Teenagers, USA, 199?
Sample:
Respondents:: N = 828
Non Response:
Assessment:: Experience sampling
minimal 15 observations in one week

Correlate

Authors's label

Company

Our Classification

Operationalization

% time spend in company of:
a: teachers
b: class mates
c: friends
d: relatives
when beeped

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure

Statistics

Elaboration / Remarks

A-ARE-mi-sqr-n-7-a

Beta = +

STANDARDIZED REGRESSION COEFFICIENT by LEAST SQUARES (OLS)

Type: test statistic.

Measurement level: Correlates: all metric, Happiness: metric.
Range: [-1 ; +1]

Meaning:
beta > 0  «  a higher correlate level corresponds to a higher happiness rating on average.
beta < 0  «  a higher correlate level corresponds to a higher happiness rating on average.
beta = 0  «   no correlation.
beta = + 1 or -1  «   perfect correlation.

% time in company with teachers

A-ARE-mi-sqr-n-7-a

t. = -0,1 p < .001

t-STATISTIC (Student's t-statistic)

Type: symmetric standard test statistic.
One parameter: n (= number of degrees of freedom (df) ; range df: [1; + infinite)
Range for t: unlimited

Meaning : the test statistic is the ratio of a difference between a statistic and its expected value under the null hypothesis and its (estimated) standard error with n degrees of freedom.
The critical values of its probability distribution are tabulated extensively in almost any textbook on Statistics.

A-ARE-mi-sqr-n-7-a

Beta = -