Study Lowenthal & Boler (1965): study US 1962
- Public
- 60+aged, San Francisco, USA, 1962
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 269
- Non Response
- 55%, 22% refusals, 9% deaths, 22% unattainable
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
using open questions during 3 days
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Social withdrawal
- Our Classification
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- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Selfreport on 3 questions on reduction in contacts during the past years of
a: contacts with relatives
b: contacts with other people
c: organisational membership
Observed Relation with Happiness
not deprived : G' = +.51 (ns)
Deprivation measured by an index of:
a: compulsery retirement in the past 7 years
b: widowhood in the past 7 years
c: interviewer rating of physical disability
G' based on proportion unhappy
not deprived : G' = -.35 (ns)
not deprived : G' = -.19 (ns)