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Correlational findings

Study Avery (2010): study US 2005

Public
Working population, USA, 2005
Survey name
Unnamed study
Sample
Respondents
N = 541
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Coworker racioethnic dissimilarity
Our Classification
Distribution
Mean = 3,52, SD =     1,87
Operationalization
Participants are asked to indicate the proportion of individuals at work with whom they interact who are of a different racioethnic group than their own.

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd rpc = +.02 ns rpc adjusted for:
- age
- education
- income
- gender
- ethnicity
- racioethnic prejudice.
O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd b = +.03 ns b adjusted for:
- age
- education
- income
- gender
- ethnicity.
O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd b = -.13 p < .05 b additionnaly adjusted for:
- interaction between ethnicity (black - hispanic,and coworker racioethnic dissimilarity.

b = 0,46 for Black x Racial dissimilarity
b = 0,58 for Hispanic x Racial dissimilarity

Racioethnicity moderated the relationship between racioethnic dissimilarity and life satisfaction with the linkage being
positive for minority respondents and negative for majority respondents.(see picture)