Study Tay et al. (2017a): study US 2012

Public

18+ aged employed collage graduates with Internet access, USA, 201?

Survey name

US-Gallup-Purdue Index (GPI)

Sample

Respondents

N = 2781

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Loans (logged)

Our Classification

Distribution

M = 3.42; SD = 1.19

Operationalization

Student Loan Amount: was assessed via an open-ended numerical entry blank were participants entered in their raw dollar loan amount. As the data indicated very large kurtosis and skew values, a log10-transformation was applied to remove this non-normality.

Observed Relation with Happiness