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Correlational findings

Study Booth & VanOurs (2009): study AU 2001

Public
Couples, Australia, followed 4 years 2001-2004
Sample
Respondents
N = 8170
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Family income
Our Classification
Distribution
Log(84,9)
Related specification variables
Operationalization
(Log) total annual family gross income in 1000 australian dollar

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLu-u-sq-n-11-a OLRC = + p < .05 ALL (correlation with couple's average happiness)                          +0,25 O-SLu-u-sq-n-11-a OLRC = + p < .05 WIVES ONLY                          +0,27 O-SLu-u-sq-n-11-a OLRC = + p < .05 HUSBANDS ONLY                       +0,22

OLCR's controlled for:
- having children
- health of spouse
- own health
- own employment
- employment of spouse

OLRC cannot be interpreted as an absolute effect size and denotes only relative differences O-SLu-u-sq-n-11-a = Fixed effect analysis yields similar results and this suggests that no other intervening variables are involved. (Fixed effect analysis uses person dummies to control for unobserved variables such as personality)