DeGraaf (2006): study NL 1996
Publication
- Author(s):
- DeGraaf, R.
- Title:
- Sexual Preference and Happiness.
- Source:
- Unpublished Analysis of Nemesis Dataset, Trimbos Institute, 2006, Utrecht, Netherlands
Investigation
- Public
- Homo- and heterosexual men and women, The Netherlands 1996
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 7069
- Non Response
- 7
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
by professionals
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
During the past 4 weeks….. Have you been a happy person?
6 all of the time
5 most of the time
4 a good bit of the time
3 some of the time
2 a little of the time
1 none of the time
Item MH5 in SF-36 (Medical Outcome Study 36 item Short Form) - Classification:
- M-TH-cm-sq-v-6-a
- Author's label:
- Happiness
- Remarks:
- Hetero women M = 4,80 SD = 1,01 N = 3075
Homo women M = 4,63 SD = 1,11 N = 43
Hetero men M = 4,92 SD = 0,99 N = 2795
Homo men M = 4,21 SD = 1,49 N = 82
All hetero (w+m) M = 4,86 SD = 1,00 N = 5870
All homo (w+m) M = 4,35 SD = 1,34 N = 125
All women: M = 4,80 SD = 1,01 N=3118
All men: M = 4,90 SD = 1,02 N=2877 - Page in publication:
- all
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 22.7%, 2: 51.2%, 3: 11.5%, 4: 10.7%, 5: 3.1%, 6: 0.8% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 6 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 4.77 7.55
- SD:
- 1.06 2.12