Study Watson & Slack (1993): study US Texas 1984
- Public
- University personnel, United States, followed 4 years, 1984-1988
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 82
- Non Response
- 21.9%
- Assessment
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Multiple assesment methods
self reports on questionnaires and rating by experts
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Perceived job changes
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Assessed at T2 T1 = initial T2 = on average 27 months later
- Distribution
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Negative job changes:
- M = 1.65; SD = 2.23
- M = 3.77; SD = 3.87 - Operationalization
- Self report on perceived impacts of 17 job-related events during the past 3 years, e.g.,
- "changed jobs"
- "promoted at work";
- "took on a greatly increased work load"
Rated:
-3 very negative
:
0 no impact
:
+3 very positive
Yielded 2 summary scores:
- Negative changes( sum of all negatively rated events)
-Positive events (sum of all positively rated events"
Observed Relation with Happiness
Positive affect Negative affect
Positive changes r = +.17(ns) r = -.04(ns)
Negative changes r = -.34(05) r = +.13(ns)
Correlation with affect balance not reported, but must be positive with positive changes and negative with negative changes. Significance not determined.
Positive affect Negative affect
Positive changes r = +.10(ns) r = +.01(ns)
Negative changes r = -.35(05) r = +.33(05)
Correlation with affect balance not reported, but must be negative and significant with negative changes.