Howell et al. (2006): study MY 2003
Publication
- Author(s):
- Howell, C.J.; Howell, R.T.; Schwabe, K.A.
- Title:
- Does Wealth Enhance Life Satisfaction for People Who Are Materially Deprived? Exploring the Association among the 'Orang Asli' of Peninsular Malaysia.
- Source:
- Social Indicators Research, 2006, Vol. 76, 499 - 524
Investigation
- Public
- Heads of households, Malaysia, 2003
- Sample
- Probability systematic sample
- Respondents
- N = 307
- Non Response
- 4,6%
- Assessment
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Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on five questions:
A I am very content with my life
B I am living my life to the fullest
C Nothing is currently lacking in my life
D When I examine my life as a whole, I feel I am not meeting my aspirations*
E I feel dissatisfied because I'm not doing everything that I want to be doing in my life*
Rating:
1 strongly disagree
.
.
7 strongly agree
* reversed keyed item
Name: Contentment with life assessment Scale (CLAS) - Classification:
- C-Sum-u-mq-n-7-b
- Author's label:
- Life Satisfaction
- Remarks:
- Transalation of the SWLS from English to Malay created problems for respondents in understanding. The fifth item on the SWLS was awkwardly worded (if you could change your life, would you change it? Eventually only the first four items were used to construct a single 4-item factor, which explained 48% of the variance in the 4 items. This factor, with a 1-7-scale instead of a 1-5-scale, was used as a measure for life satisfaction.
- Page in publication:
- 509
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.80 -
- SD:
- 1.17 -