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Correlational findings

Study Yeh et al. (2015): study TW 2009

Public
Working age public, Taiwan, 2009
Survey name
TW-Social Change Survey 2009
Sample
Respondents
N = 1311
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Absolute family income
Our Classification
Distribution
Mean = 8.23, SD = 7.93
Operationalization
Midpoint of pre-tax monthly total family income category (interval scale in $10,000 New Taiwan dollars)

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLL-u-sq-v-4-i OPRC = +.01 p < .01 controlled for:
- personal characteristics
   - age
   - gender
   - education
   - employment status
   - marital status
   - health
   - residence
   - religion
- absolute income

OPRC similar when additionally controlled for:
- relative income
- objective class position (+ previous)
- subjective class position (+ previous)
- personality (+ previous) O-HL-c-sq-v-3-o OPRC = +.01 ns controlled for:
- personal characteristics
- absolute income O-HL-c-sq-v-3-o OPRC = .00 ns additionally controlled for:
- relative class position

OPRC similar when additionally controlled for:
- objective class position
- subjective class position (+ previous)
- personality (+ previous)