Correlational findings | World Database of Happiness

Study Kye & Park (2014): study KR 2009

Public: 30-69 aged, general population, South Korea 2009
Survey name: Unnamed study
Sample
Respondents: N = 1530
Non Response
Assessment: Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label

Marrital status

Our Classification

Distribution

1. Part of couple, 86.7%
0. Not part of couple, 13.3%

Operationalization

Marital status was defined as being part of a couple or not.

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure

Statistics

Elaboration / Remarks

O-HL-g-sq-v-4-m

D% = + p < .001

Marital status
                  % happy %unhappy  %difference
- Part of couple        61.3  38.7   +22.6
- Not part of couple    47.8  52.3   -4.5

O-HL-g-sq-v-4-m

OR = 1.58 p < .05

Part of couple (vs not)
OR CI95[1,08-2,31] controled for:
- socio-demographic factors
  - age
  - income
  - education
- stress
- healthy behavior
  - smoking
  - healthy eating
  - regular exercise
- exercise environment
  - parks
  - fitness clubs
  - mountain trails