Study Schulz & Decker (1985): study US 1985
- Public
- 40+ aged, spinal-cord-injured, non-institutionalised, Portland Oregon, USA, 198?
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 100
- Non Response
- 4%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview, partly by telephone
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Disabled
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- 1 Disabled:
40+ aged spinal cord-injured with
paraplegia or quadriplegia (complete
and incomplete) in stable disease
state. Non-institutionalized, most
married. Average time since injury
20 years.
0 Normals:
18+ aged USA (Data BERKM 1971)
Observed Relation with Happiness
Normals : M = 3.96 Mt'= 5.4
The distribution of happiness (affect) is similar in both groups, but the frequencies in the most happy range are smaller among the handicapped.
The authors presented happiness on scale 1-7 with 1 denoting the highest happiness level, while in the WDH 1 marks the lowest level of happiness. Hence the scores were reversed by the WDH-team and the M presented above was calculated accordingly from the frequency distribution on table 1
Ms' 0 unhappy- 10 happy