Study Ackerman et al. (1989): study US 1986
- Public
- Dairy farm couples, Utah, USA,1986
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 116
- Non Response
- 28%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Two-person interview teams conducted separate simultaneous interviews with the husband and wife in each dairy farm household.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Satisfaction with oneself
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- M.= wives: 4,95; husbands: 5,26; difference is significant at 0,001 level.
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Selfreport on single question:
How do you feel about yourself, what you are accomplishing and how you handle problems?
7: delighted
6: happy
5: mostly satisfied
4: mixed
3: mostly dissatisfied
2: unhappy
1: terrible
Observed Relation with Happiness
Beta's controlled for satisfaction with:
-farm work
-family activities
-satisfaction with own health
-leisure: amount of fun
-leisure: spare time (how spent)
-leisure: time (available)
-off-farm job (only if husband and wife have off-farm-jobs)
-family income
-own house
-goods and services
-national government
Beta's somewhat different if satisfaction with farm work is removed from regression-equation.
(wives: +0,23; husbands: +0,36)