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