Study Nock (1982): study US 1972
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, 1972-77
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 8224
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Highly structured at home
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Family disruption in youth
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- happiness recoded a+b = 0, c = 1 b controlled for race, sex, number of siblings, religous denomination, age, education and occupational prestige.
- Operationalization
- Single closed question about familysituation around the time the respondent was 16: "Were you with your own mother and father around the time you were 16?" If not, the reason for this was asked and with whom the respondent was living around that time.
0: lived with both natural parents
1: family disruption
- divorce of parents
- lived with father and stepmother
- lived with mother and stepfather
- lived with mother only
- lived with father only
- death of parents
- lived with father and stepmother
- lived with mother and stepfather
- lived with mother only
- lived with father only