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Correlational findings

Study Guo et al. (2022a): study US Chicago 2011

Public
Elderly Chinese migrants, Chicago, USA, 2011 - 2013
Survey name
US-PINE
Sample
Respondents
N = 2923
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face
Interviews were conducted by bilingual interviewers in respondents’ homes.

Correlate

Authors's Label
Material hardship
Our Classification
Distribution
1: 34.02%, 0: 65.98%
Operationalization
Self report on question: How hard is it for you to pay for the very basics, like food, housing,
medical care, and heating?
1 = very hard/ somewhat hard
0 = not very hard at all

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-QL?-?-sq-v-4-a OR = 0.49 p < .001 OR (CI: 0.41–0.59) controlled for:
- Spousal coping  
- Community coping
- Multi-source coping
- Age  
- Women  
- Married
- Age at migration  
- Poverty  
- Poor subjective health  
- ADL difficulties
- IADL difficulties
- Low acculturation
- Experience of discrimination