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Correlational findings

Study Kataria & Regner (2009): study ZZ 1995

Public
18+ aged general public, 38 nations, 1995-2001
Survey name
INT-WorldValuesSurvey 1994-2008
Sample
Respondents
N = 42545
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Freedom
Our Classification
Related specification variables
Operationalization
Self report on a single question:
"Some people feel they have completely freedom of choice and control over their lives, while other people feel that what they do has no real effect on what happens to them. Please use this scale to indicate how much freedom of choice and control you feel you have over the way you have over the way your life turns out."
1:     No choice at all
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10:   A great deal of choice

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a Beta = +.30 p < .00 All Nations O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a Beta = +.35 p < .00 European nations only O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a Beta = +.34 p < .00 Nations for which information on relational activity is available only

Betas controlled for:
- Income
- Health
- Unemployed
- Married
- Education
- Education^2
- Age
- Age^2
- Male
- Religion important
- Trust
- Honesty
- Voluntary org. Dummy
- Active voluntary org. Dummy
- TV (1-2 h)
- TV (2-3 h)
- TV (>3 h) O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a Beta = +.33 p < .00 Nations for which information on relational activity is available only

Beta additionally controlled for Time spent with:
- family
- friends
- colleagues
- church
- sport