Chang & Nayga Jr. (2010): study TW 2001
Publication
- Author(s):
- Chang, H.H.; Nayga Jr., R.M.
- Title:
- Childhood Obesity and Unhappiness: the Influence of Soft Drinks and Fast Food Consumption.
- Source:
- Journal of Happiness Studies, 2010, Vol. 11, 261 - 275
Investigation
- Public
- Under 12 aged, children, Taiwan, 2001
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Probability stratified sample
- Respondents
- N = 2366
- Non Response
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
Interviews with the mothers
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Rating by mother in response to single question:
How often does your child feel unhappy, sad or depressed?
1 often
2 seldom
3 never - Classification:
- A-AOL-g-rdf-v-3-b
- Remarks:
- Due to the low percentage of responses in the "often" category, arthors combined the first two categories into a single category to represent unhappiness.
1: unhappy
0: happy - Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 0.19 -
- SD:
- 0.40 -