Study Kaliterna Lipovcan & Prizmic-Larsen (2016): study HR 2008
- Public
- 18+ aged happy and unhappy people, Croatia, 2008
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 800
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
The respondents were told that responses were anonymous
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Trust in the institutions
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Selfreport on single question: How much do you trust each of the 14 institutions?
a: Government institutions (4 items):
- government
- parliament
- political parties
- the court
b: Public institutions (6 items):
- school
- universities
- military
- police
- health care
- church
c: Non-government institutions (4 items):
- non-government associations
- trade union association
- media
- the president
Each item rated:
1 not at all
2
3
4 very much
Average rating of trust is calculated for each group of institutions
Observed Relation with Happiness
trust in government institutions
happy M = 1.9 SD = 0.67
unhappy M = 1.7 SD = 0.63
- difference + 0.2
a: PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
trust in public institutions
happy M = 2.5 SD = 0.66
unhappy M = 2.2 SD = 0.66
- difference + 0.3
c: NON GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS
trust in non government institutions
happy M = 2.3 SD = 0.65
unhappy M = 2.1 SD = 0.67
- difference + 0.2
b: Public institutions 0.06
c: Non-government institutions 0.02
b: Public institutions 0.45
c: Non-government institutions 0.30