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Studies

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:
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

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Income