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Studies

DeVoe & Pfeffer (2009): study US 2002

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, 2002
Survey name
US-GSS 2002
Sample
Probability stratified sample
Respondents
N = 15450
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

If you were to consider your life in general these days, how happy or unhappy would you say you are, on the whole...?
4  very happy
3  fairly happy
2  not very happy
1  not at all happy
Classification:
O-HL-c-sq-v-4-f
Author's label:
happiness
Page in publication:
1606
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 4 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.35 -
SD:
0.62 -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Income