DeVoe & Pfeffer (2009): study US 1987
Publication
- Author(s):
- DeVoe, S E; Pfeffer, J
- Title:
- When Is Happiness About How Much You Earn? The Effect of Hourly Payment on the Money-Happiness Connection.
- Source:
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2009, Vol. 12, 1602 - 1618
Investigation
- Public
- Working people, USA, 1987 - 1988
- Sample
- Probability stratified sample
- Respondents
- N = 13007
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Next are some questions about how you see yourself and your life. Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days?
1 very unhappy
2
3
4
5
6
7 very happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-n-7-b
- Author's label:
- subjective well-being
- Page in publication:
- 1609
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 5.38 7.30
- SD:
- 1.34 2.23