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Studies

Dierker et al. (2023): study GB 1996

Publication

Author(s):
Dierker, P; Kühn, M; Myrskyla, M.
Title:
Re-partnering and single mothers' mental health and life satisfaction trajectories
Source:
MPIDR Working paper WP 2023-001

Investigation

Public
Single mothers, United Kingdom, followed 2 years before and 5 years after becoming a single mother, 1996 - 2020
Survey name
UK-BHPS combined waves
Sample
Selection from general population sample
Respondents
N = 1963
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question

Here are some questions about how you feel about your life. Please tick the number which you feel best describes how dissatisfied or satisfied you are with the following aspects of your current situation…

Your life as a whole.
1  not satisfied at all
2
3
4
5
6
7  completely satisfied

Last item in a list of domain satisfactions
Classification:
O-SLW-c-sq-n-7-b
Author's label:
Life satisfaction
Remarks:
To compare the variables, the British items were rescaled to a range of 0 to 10.
Page in publication:
11
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
Mean:
- 6.70
SD:
- -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Re-partnered