Study Layard et al. (2013): study GB 2004
- Public
- 34 aged, United Kingdom, followed from childhood, 2004
- Survey name
- UK-British Cohort Study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 8868
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Family psychosocial
- Our Classification
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- Error Estimates
- s.e.=0.01
- Remarks
- Data set using imputation for missing variables.
- Operationalization
- a: Mother's emotional health (age 5,10, average)
b: Child conceived within marriage
c: Both parents still together (age 10)
Observed Relation with Happiness
When family background limited to:
- age 5: R2= +.02
- up to age 10: R2= +.03
- up to age 16: R2= +.07
- Good conduct (at age 5,10,16)
- Intellectual performance (at age 5,10,16)
- Family economic
- Gender (female)
Indirect effect of childhood family psychosocial:
Simulated:
beta= +.02
Subtraction of total variance in family psychosocial from childhood family psychosocial:
beta= +.01
When limiting family psychosocial up to:
- age 5: beta= +.03
- age 10:beta= +.07
- Income
- Employed
- Education
- Good conduct (at age 16-34)
- Self-perceived health(at age 26)
- Emotional health (at age 26)
- family economic
- gender (female)