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Correlational findings

Study Kamalov & Ponarin (2020): study RU 1990

Public
16+ aged, general public, Russia, 1990 - 2017
Survey name
INT-WVS: combined waves
Sample
Respondents
N = 14363
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
National pride
Our Classification
Distribution
Mean = 3.09, SD = 0.86, Min=1, Max=4
Related specification variables
Operationalization
Selfreport on single question: How proud are you that you are a Russian?
1: absolutely not proud
:
4: very proud
-   I am not a Russian

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-HL-c-sq-v-4-a b = +.27 p < .001 O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a b = +.24 p < .001 O-Sum-*-mq-*-10-a b = +.26 p < .001 b insignificant when controled for:
- year
- interaction between national pride and perceived income position

Description for Fig3:
X axis - National pride
Y axis - Subjective Well-being
Pink graph - Subjective well-being index
Green graph - Happiness
Blue graph - Life satisfaction
O-HL-c-sq-v-4-a b-iv = +.96 p < .001 b-iv instrumented for wilingness to fight only O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a b-iv = +.84 p < .001 b-iv instrumented for watching political TV programs O-Sum-*-mq-*-10-a b-iv = +.92 p < .001 b-iv instrumented for both willingness to fight for country and frequency of watching political programs on TV

All coefficients controlled for:
- Age, Age^2
- Sex
- Health status
- Education
- Marital status
- Income
- Job
- Trust
- Religiosity
- Year

Strongest among the lowest income deciles.
Similar across health status
O-Sum-*-mq-*-10-a = Difference in the effects of national pride on subjective well-being dependong on the method.

X-axis - National pride
Y-axis - Subjective well-being
Red graph - Least square method
Blue graph - Least square method with instrumental variables.

The model show that the possible causal effect of national pride is much higher than simple correlation suggests.
O-Sum-*-mq-*-10-a = Difference in the Effect of Pride on Hapiness by year and Income.

X-axis - National pride
Y-axis - Subjective well-being

Left graph - Difference by year
In 2011 and 2017 the effect on national pride turned out to be significantly higher than in 1995, while in 2006 the effect was statistically indistinguishable from the effect of pride in 1995.

Right graph - Difference by Income
Red graph - 1 decile
Blue graph - 10 decile