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Correlational findings

Study Botwinick & Storandt (1974): study US St. Louis County, Missouri 1969

Public
20-80 aged, general public, metropolitan St. Louis area, USA, 197?
Sample
Respondents
N = 120
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Crossing-off
Our Classification
Remarks
Botwinick and Storandt, Memory related functions and age, 1973, p.32
Operationalization
A simplified version of the Copying Digits task. Digits are replaced with short horizontal lines: 8 in a row with 12 rows on a page. Subjects task was to make vertical or diagonal mark across each line from left to right and top to bottom. The score was the number of lines "crossed" per second (multiplied by 100) with a maximum of 3 minutes.

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLu-c-sq-l-11-a r = +.02 ns