Study Spanier & Furstenberg (1982): study US 1977
- Public
- Separated, followed 2 years, Pennsylvania, USA, 1977-79
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 210
- Non Response
- T1: 39 %, T2: 48 %
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Separation aftermath
- Our Classification
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- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Change in happiness between T1 and T2
(2,5 years)
Observed Relation with Happiness
- Increase 42%,
- no change 25%,
- decrease 33%
Difference +23%
- no change 50%
- decrease 19%
Difference +13%
- no change 11 %
- decrease 46 %
Difference -4%
All changes in happiness similar across:
- children
- presence in the house
- number of
- former marriage
- length of marriage
- length of separation, divorced at T1
- recalled dyadic adjustment prior to separation
- initiation of divorce: self or partner
- remarriage and cohabitation or not since T1
- S.E.S.
- former spouses occupational status
- own occupational status
- family income, education)
- sex role (households tasks at T1)
- age
- gender
Change in happiness positively affected by:
- employment at T1
- age of oldest child at T1