print

Correlational findings

Study Hay (1979): study GB 1976

Public
Adult, general public, Great Britain, 1976
Sample
Respondents
N = 2000
Non Response
?
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face
Partly highly structured, partly focused open-ended interview

Correlate

Authors's Label
Spiritual experiences
Our Classification
Distribution
1: about 30%
Operationalization
0 No spiritual experience
1 Reports to have had religious or   paranormal experience

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks A-BB-cm-mq-v-2-a DM = + s Ss reporting religious experiences were significantly more likely to be balanced and personally happy than other people.