Study Bradburn & Caplovitz (1965): study US Illinois 1962 /1

Public

Adults, general public, 2 towns, prosperous and depressed, Illinois, USA, 1962/3 - 1962/10

Sample

Respondents

N = 547

Non Response

?

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview

Correlate

Authors's Label

Living in a period of national crisis

Our Classification

Operationalization

Re-interview during Cuban missile crisis in October 1962 (T2).
This crisis involved a political con- frontation between the USA and the USSR and might have resulted in a (nuclear) war.
Happiness assessed at T1 and T2.

Observed Relation with Happiness