Study Sheldon & Hoon (2006): study ZZ East-West pairs 2001

Public

University students, USA and Singapore, 200?

Sample

Respondents

N = 533

Non Response

6%

Assessment

Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
!! USA: web-based, Singapore: paper-an-pencil

Correlate

Authors's Label

Openness

Our Classification

Error Estimates

α >.75

Remarks

Subscale of TIPI (Ten Item Personality Inventory, Gosling et al., 2003), 2 items Subscale of STA (single trait adjectives, Sheldon et al., 1997), 3 items (not reported)

Distribution

M = 5.09, SD = .99

Operationalization

Selfreport on the extent to which they agree on 5 questions, f.e.
- open to new experiences, complex
- conventional, uncreative

Rated 1 (disagree strongly) to 7 (agree strongly)

Measures of the two different scales were standardized and averaged

Observed Relation with Happiness