Study Shmotkin & Hadari (1996): study IL 1991
- Public
- 60+ aged, Israel, 1991
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 830
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
The respondents were interviewed individually or in small groups. They were approached in some dozens of public sites as well as private homes over the country.
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Present happiness
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- tems that load high on a factor derived from responses to several geriatric adjustment scales
- Operationalization
- Selfreport on 5 questions:
a: These are the best years of my life
b: I am just as happy as I was younger
c: my life could be happier than it is now
d: I am as happy now as when I was younger
e: In site of what people say, the lot of average man is getting worse, not better