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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
Time spend with: friends
Our Classification
Remarks
Nations for which information on relational activity is available (Spain, South Africa, Argentina, Puerto-Rico, Peru, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Uganda, N=8190)
Related specification variables
Operationalization
Self report on question about time spent with friends
1: Never
2: Yearly
3: Monthly
4: Weekly (reference)

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a Beta = +.02 p < .81 Never (vs Weekly) O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a Beta = +.05 p < .56 Yearly (vs Weekly) O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a Beta = +.12 p < .16 Monthly (vs Weekly)

Betas controlled for:
- Income
- Health
- Freedom
- Unemployed
- Married
- Education
- Education^2
- Age
- Age^2
- Male
- Religion important
- Trust
- Honesty
- Time spent with: family
- Time spent with: colleagues
- Time spent with: church
- Time spent with: sport
- Voluntary org. Dummy
- Active voluntary org. Dummy
- TV (1-2 h)
- TV (2-3 h)
- TV (>3 h)