Study Fleche et al. (2011): study BE 1981

Public

18+ aged, general public, Belgium, 1981-2008

Survey name

INT-WorldValuesSurvey 1994-2008

Sample

Respondents

N = 1385

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Freedom of choice and control

Our Classification

Error Estimates

s.e.=.025

Operationalization

Self report on a single question:
"Some people feel they have completely freedom of choice and control over their lives, while other people feel that what they do has no real effect on what happens to them. Please use this scale to indicate how much freedom of choice and control you feel you have over the way you have over the way your life turns out."
1:     No choice at all
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10:   A great deal of choice

Observed Relation with Happiness