Study Berry & Williams (1987): study US Indiana 1986

Public

Couples, Indiana, USA, 1986

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 265

Non Response

36% of the eligibles

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Personal interview for one spouse + additional questionnaires for the other spouse and adolescent(s)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Value rank agreement

Our Classification

Distribution

Wives: Mean: 24.88, SD: 14.45
Husbands: Mean: 18.20, SD: 9.79

Operationalization

Respondents were asked to give a ranking for 9 possible life domains:
a: housing
b: leisure and recreation
c: education
d: financial security
e: work
f: religion
g: community
h: family
i: friends

Ranking:
[ 1 ] the most important domain
[ 2 ] the second most important domain
[ 3 ] the third most important domains
[ 5 ] the remaining 3 domains ("tied" value)
[ 7 ] the third least important domain
[ 8 ] the second least important domain
[ 9 ] the least important domain


Computation (ranges from 0 to 72):
|a(husband) - a(wife)| + |b(husband) - b(wife)| + ... + |i(husband) - i(wife)|

Observed Relation with Happiness