Correlational findings | World Database of Happiness

Study Palisi & Canning (1983): study ZZ Western nations 1977

Public:: Males, metropolitan areas, England, USA, Australia, 1977-1980
Sample:
Respondents:: N = 752
Non Response:: 67 %
Assessment:: Questionnaire: paper
Mailed questionnaire

Correlate

Authors's label

Living in city center

Our Classification

Operationalization

0 Suburban
1 City centre

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure

Statistics

Elaboration / Remarks

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r = -.16 ns

PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENT (Also "Pearson's correlation coefficient' or simply 'correlation coefficient')

Type: test statistic.
Measurement level: Correlate: metric, Happiness: metric
Range: [-1; +1]

Meaning:
r = 0  « no correlation ,
r = 1  « perfect correlation, where high correlate values correspond with high happiness values, and
r = -1  « perfect correlation, where high correlate values correspond with low happiness values.

London

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rpc = -.15

PARTIAL CORRELATION COEFFICIENT

Type: test statistic
Measurement level: Correlate: metric, Happiness: metric
Range:  [-1; +1]

Meaning:  a partial correlation between happiness and one of the correlates is that correlation, which remains after accounting for the contribution of the other influences, or some of them, to the total variability in the happiness scores.
Under that conditions
rpc > 0  « a higher correlate level corresponds with  a higher  happiness rating,
rpc < 0  «  a higher correlate level corresponds with  a lower  happiness rating,

A-BB-cw-mq-v-2-a

r = -.06 ns

PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENT (Also "Pearson's correlation coefficient' or simply 'correlation coefficient')

Los Angeles

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rpc = -.03

PARTIAL CORRELATION COEFFICIENT

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r = -.03 ns

PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENT (Also "Pearson's correlation coefficient' or simply 'correlation coefficient')

Sydney

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rpc = -.02

PARTIAL CORRELATION COEFFICIENT

rpc controled for: Age, frequency of visits to friends, frequency of visits to kin and perceived crowding