Cheung (2018a): study ZZ World samples 1989
Publication
- Author(s):
- Cheung, F.
- Title:
- Income Redistribution Predicts Greater Life Satisfaction across Individual, National, and Cultural Characteristics
- Source:
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2018, Vol 115, 867-882
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, 33 nations, followed 1989 - 2012
- Survey name
- INT-World Values Survey, pooled waves
- Sample
- Probability multi-stage random
- Respondents
- N = 112876
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1 dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a
- Author's label:
- Life Satisfaction
- Page in publication:
- 27
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.93 6.59
- SD:
- 2.36 2.62