Study Bachman et al. (1978): study US 1966
- Public
- Public highschool boys followed 8 years from grade 10, USA, 1966-74
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 1628
- Non Response
- 2.8% at T1, 17.2% at T2, 21.0% at T3, 28.9% at T4, 28.5% at T5
- Assessment
-
Multiple assesment methods
Interviews, tests and questionnaires
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- School mean intelligence scores
- Our Classification
-
-
- Operationalization
- High school's mean GATB-J score, Gates score and Quick Test score, computed from the scores of all the T1 respondents at that school.
Observed Relation with Happiness
in high school
Quick GATB-J Gates
Happiness Test test
T1 tau = -.04 -.04 -.04
T2 tau = -.01 -.04 -.03
T3 tau = -.03 -.03 -.02
T4 tau = -.01 -.00 -.02
All tau's not significant
T1:1966, T2:1968, T3:1969, T4:1970