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Correlational findings

Study Sabatini & Sarracino (2014): study IT 2010

Public
18+ aged, general public, Italy, 2010-2011
Survey name
IT MHS 2010-2011
Sample
Respondents
N = 77560
Non Response
Assessment
Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label
Social trust
Our Classification
Distribution
A: Yes: 22%;No:78%. B: M=1.62;SD= .73
Operationalization
Selfreport on 2 questions:
A "Do you think that most people can be trusted or that you can't be too careful in dealing with people?"
        1 Yes
        0 No
B "Imagine you lost your wallet with your money, identification or address in your city/area and it was found by someone else. "How likely do you think your wallet would be returned to you if it were found by a neighbor/the police/a stranger?"
          4 Very likely
          3 Fairly likely
          2 Not much likely
           1 Not likely at all

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd OPRC = +.20 p < .001 A O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd OPRC = +.09 p < .001 B

OPRC's controlled for:
- time spent commuting
- time watching TV
- gender
- age and age squared
- health
- modem
- DSL
- glass fiber
- 3G
- USB
- online networking
- contacts with friends
- social trust
- real GDP pc

OPRC's not significantly affected by additional control for:
- online networking
- real GDP pc