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 -