Study Passmore et al. (2018): study CA 2017

Public

Aged 17-40, undergraduate university students, Canada, 2017

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 230

Non Response

Assessment

Assessment not reported

Correlate

Authors's Label

Implicit theories of well-being

Our Classification

Error Estimates

M=30.91; SD= 4.96 SE b=.11

Remarks

Source: Howell et al. (2016)

Operationalization

The extent to which respondents believe that:
A Well-being can be cultivated (incremental beliefs)  
either that:
B Well-being is a given trait and cannot be changed (entity beliefs).
Selfreport on 8 items, e.g. 'You have a certain amount of well-being, and you can't really do much about it' and 'No matter what you are, you can significantly change your well-being level'. Rated on a 5-point scale (strongly agree to 5 strongly disagree). Scores were summed.

Observed Relation with Happiness