Study Muffels & Kemperman (2011): study XZ Germany West 1984
- Public
- 20-55 aged, women, Germany, 1984-2007
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 90297
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Work orientations
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Questions were only asked in 1990, 1992, 1995 and 2004. Missing values on work orientations were imputed for the other years.
- Operationalization
- Self report on how important in life the respondent thinks it is
- to have children
- to have success in a job
Ranging from 1 very important to 4 very unimportant
a:home centered: having children important, work unimportant
b:work centered: having children unimportant, work important:
c:adaptive: children as well as succes in work important in life:
d:drifters: without strong preferences
Observed Relation with Happiness
Beta controlled for: Set A
Beta controlled for: Set A
Beta controlled for: Set A
Set A:
- number of hours per week working and caring
- fit between preferred and actual working hours
- marital status
- age
- age squared/100
- number of children 0-15 years
- unemployment rate
- born in east-Germany
- foreigner status
- education
- age youngest child
- objective health
Set B: (N = 70859)
- neuroticism
- agreeableness
- conscientiousness
- extraversion
- openness to experience
Set C:
- birth cohort
Set D:
- interaction: hours match*work orientation
Set E:
- interaction: hours match*work-care combinations
Interaction effect with fit between preferred and actual working hours: only overworked women who value work as important score significantly lower on happiness than women satisfied with their working hours, while being home centered.
Fixed effects analysis yields similar results.