Study Muffels et al. (2012): study ZZ Europe 2008
- Public
- 18+ aged general public, 47 countries, 2008
- Survey name
- EU-EVS
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 67216
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Index Importance friends
- Our Classification
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- Distribution
- M = 3.36
- Operationalization
- Selfreport on single question on to what extent people think of their friends as an important aspect in life
Rated on 4 step scale
Observed Relation with Happiness
OPRC controlled for :
- Personal characteristics
- age, age squared, age cubed
- gender
- marital status
- employmnet status
- bad health
- Nation characteristics
- GDP growth
- unemployment rate
- opinion climate
- importance family and children
- altruism
- trust in people and institutions
- importance friends
- post-materialism: pure, mixed
- leisure values
- work orientation: intrinsic, extrinsic
- work values (work ethos, work first)
- religious values
- traditional gender values