Study Sheldon et al. (2017): study ZZ 2015

Public

Undergraduate students in Russia and USA, 2015

Survey name

Unnamed study

Sample

Respondents

N = 598

Non Response

Assessment

Questionnaire: Conputer Assisted Web Interview (CAWI)

Correlate

Authors's Label

Happiness inhibition

Our Classification

Error Estimates

Alpha .76

Remarks

Russian students are less open about their happiness to strangers than US students. No difference in openness about one's happiness to friends

Distribution

A: Russia M = 3.40 SD= 1.049 USA: M = 3.57 SD = 0.955
B: Russia: M = 3.93 SD = 1.156 USA M = 3.72 SD = 0.944
C: Russia M = 3.84 SD = 1.113 USA: M = 3.57 SD = 0.986

Related specification variables

Operationalization

Selfreport on 3 questions:
A: I do not show happiness to friends
B: I do not show happiness to strangers
C: I do not show happines to authorities
Rated
1 strongly disagree
2 disagree
3 neutral
4 agree
5 strongly agree

Observed Relation with Happiness