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
- Post- materialism
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- The topics of maintaining order and fighting prices are assumed to represent materialistic values, whereas giving people more say and protecting freedom of speech are considered to represent post-materialistic values. Hence, three groups are constructed: a group of ‘pure materialists’, a ‘mixed group’ having materialist and post-materialist values and a third group of ‘pure post-materialists’.
- Distribution
- M = 0.10
- Operationalization
- Inglehart's four point post-materialism scale is used:
Respondents are asked to list their first and second choice out of four topics related to
the importance for
a: the country of ‘maintaining order in the nation
b: giving people more say in important government decisions
c: fighting rising prices
d: protecting freedom of speech
Rated
1: yes
2: no
Observed Relation with Happiness
OPRCs 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
- importance of friends
- altruism
- trust in people and institutions
- importance friends
- leisure values
- work orientation: intrinsic, extrinsic
- work values (work ethos, work first)
- religious values
- traditional gender values