Study Richardson & Kilty (1991): study US Ohio 1986

Public

Reterees Ohio USA, followed 1 year, 1986-1987

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 222

Non Response

11.2

Assessment

Multiple assesment methods
Mail and telphone interview

Correlate

Authors's Label

Miss work

Our Classification

Error Estimates

Reliability: alpha coefficient=0 .66 at T2, 0.74 at T3

Remarks

T1: Pre-retirement T2: Retired: 6 months later T3: Retired:12 months later adapted from a scale from Streib and Schneider Asessed at T2 and T3 T1: Pre-retirement T2: Six-months after T1 T3: Twelve-months after T1

Related specification variables

Operationalization

Selfreport on 4 questions:
A:  How often do you miss being with other people at work?
B: How often do you miss the feeling of doing a good job?
C: How often do you feel that you want to go backto work?
D; How often do you worry about not having a job?

Observed Relation with Happiness