Baruch & Barnett (1986a): study US 1980
Publication
- Author(s):
- Baruch, G.K.; Barnett, R.C.
- Title:
- Consequences of Fathers' Participation in Family Work: Parents' Role Strain and Well-Being.
- Source:
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1986, Vol. 51, 983 - 992
Investigation
- Public
- Mothers with children age 4-10, USA,1980
- Sample
- Probability stratified sample
- Respondents
- N = 160
- Non Response
- 60%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Also mailed questionnaire, weekchart. Parents jointly used a chart to indicate 5 typical week days and for 2 typical weekend days the hours during which the target child and each parent were home and awake; they then indicated the nature of the child- parent interaction that typically occured during each of those hours.
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Considering everything, how satisfied are you with your life as whole.....?
7 completely satisfied
6 satisfied
5 mostly satisfied
4 satisfied/dissatisfied
3 dissatisfied
2 very dissatisfied
1 completely dissatisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-u-sq-v-7-a
- Author's label:
- Overall life satisfaction
- Page in publication:
- 987
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.52 -
- SD:
- - -