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Correlational findings

Study Foa et al. (2018): study RU 1982

Public
18+ aged gerneral public, Russia 1982-2011
Survey name
INT-World Values Survey, pooled waves
Sample
Respondents
N = 20000
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Change negative affect expression in Russia 1982-2011
Our Classification
Error Estimates
Inter item correlation +.78
Remarks
Google Ngram database, which covers all books predominantly in the Russian language; for the period under consideration, A regime change took place in 1989, The communist regime changed into a market democracy
Operationalization
Use in Google Ngrams 1982-2011of  two negative affect terms with particular resonance in late
soviet and transition-era Russia:
a:  ’’zastoy’’ (stagnation)
b: ‘‘opaseniya’’ (apprehension),

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-Sum-*-mq-nvt-14-b DM = + Trend AVERAGE happiness by trend negative mood expression in books

V-pattern in this era of regime shift
O-Sum-*-mq-nvt-14-b r = +.95