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Correlational findings

Study Ng et al. (2009): study ZZ World samples 2005

Public
15+ aged, general public, 121 nations, 2005-2006
Survey name
INT-GallupWorldPoll2006
Sample
Respondents
N = 125077
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
In wealty nations through telephone surveys based on random-digit dialing. In poorer nations door-to-door interviews, randomly-selected.

Correlate

Authors's Label
Worry on individual and nation level
Our Classification
Operationalization
Selfreport on single question.
Did you experience these feeling a lot in the previous day?
Worry

Rated:
1: yes
0: no

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks C-BW-c-sq-l-11-c r = -.12 p < .001 Individual level: Individual happiness by individual worry C-BW-c-sq-l-11-c r = -.05 Nation level: AVERAGE happiness by % worried