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Correlational findings

Study Flavin & Keane (2012): study US 2000

Public
18+ aged, general piblic USA, 2000
Survey name
US-ANES 2000
Sample
Respondents
N = 1548
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face
face-to-face by traditional area probability sampling; telephone by RDD sampling (Random digit dialing)

Correlate

Authors's Label
Voting
Our Classification
Distribution
M = 0.76, SD = 0.42
Operationalization
Self -reported  turnout for the 2000 election
1: voted
0: did not vote
Range: 0-1

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLL-c-sq-v-3-d b = +.34 p < .01 B uncontrolled O-SLL-c-sq-v-3-d b = +.28 p < .01 B controlled for demographics:
- education
- income
- age, age squared
- gender
- african american
- latino O-SLL-c-sq-v-3-d b = +.28 p < .01 B additionally controled for electoral context:
- presidential competitiveness
- senate election
- governor election O-SLL-c-sq-v-3-d b = +.19 p < .01 B additionally controled for political behavior:
- internal efficacy
- external efficacy
- partisanship, partisanship squared O-SLL-c-sq-v-3-d b = +.13 p < .10 B additionally controled for social connectedness:
- interpersonal trust
- organizational memberships
- married