Correlational findings | World Database of Happiness

Study Hay (1979): study GB 1976

Public: Adult, general public, Great Britain, 1976
Sample
Respondents: N = 2000
Non Response: ?
Assessment: Interview: face-to-face
Partly highly structured, partly focused open-ended interview

Authors's Label

Spiritual experiences

Our Classification

Distribution

1: about 30%

Operationalization

0 No spiritual experience
1 Reports to have had religious or paranormal experience

Happiness Measure

Statistics

Elaboration / Remarks

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Ss reporting religious experiences were significantly more likely to be balanced and personally happy than other people.