Study Berkman (1971): study US Alameda County, California 1965
- Public
- Adults, general public, Alameda County, USA, 1965
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 6928
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
Mailed questionnaire
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Life stress
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- 9-item index involving:
Childhood stress (4 items)
1: broken homes in childhood (before
of 15)
2: evaluation of mother and father as
parents
3: happiness of parents's marriage
during childhood
4: illness of family members during
childhood.
Adult stress (5 items):
1: poor interpersonal relations
2: self-evaluated comparative
financial status
3: physical health
4: parental worries
5: marital satisfaction
Combined into a 17-point scale.
Observed Relation with Happiness
proportion happy:
low sress 0- 3 9.9% AR= .72
4- 7 40.8% AR= .58
8-11 39.3% AR= .43
high stress 12-16 10.0% AR= .31
The average ridits (AR) were calculated with
the distribution of the total sample as reference
(N=6928)