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Correlational findings

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
Education level
Our Classification
Distribution
1: 20.4%, 2: 48.7%, 3: 30.9%
Operationalization
1. Lower than middle school graduate
2. High school graduate
3. Higher than college graduate

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-HL-g-sq-v-4-m D% = + p < .001                   % happy %unhappy  %difference
- Level 1            50.5  49.5      +1
- Level 2            59.1  40.9      +18.2
- Level 3            66.5  33.5      +33 O-HL-g-sq-v-4-m OR = 1.1 p < .05 level 2 (vs 1) (vs lower)CI95[0,75-1,62] O-HL-g-sq-v-4-m OR = 1,4 p < .05 Level 3 (vs 1) CI95[0,90-2,31]

OR's controled for:
- socio-demographic factors
  - age
  - marital status
  - income
  - education
- stress
- healthy behavior
  - smoking
- exercise environment
  - parks
  - fitness clubs
  - mountain trails