Pollmann-Schult (2014): study DE 1994
Publication
- Author(s):
- Pollmann-Schult, M.
- Title:
- Parenthood and Life Satisfaction: Why don't children make people happy?
- Source:
- Journal of Marriage and Family, 76(2)
Investigation
- Public
- aged 18-60, general public, observed partnership in at least 1 year, Germany, 1994 - 2010
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Selection from general population sample
- Respondents
- N = 16021
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taking all things together, how satisfied are you with your life these days? Please answer with the help of this scale. For instance, when you are totally satisfied with your life, please tick '10'. When you are totally unsatisfied with your life, please tick '0'. You may use all values in between to indicate that you are neither totally satisfied nor totally unsatisfied."
10 totally satisfied
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0 totally unsatisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Remarks:
- Nonmother: M = 7.16 (SD=1.72), N=18,357
Mother: M = 7.12 (SD=1.66), N=31,034
Nonfather: M = 6.96 (SD=1.77), N=19,490
Father: M = 7.07 (SD=1.621), N=26,439 - Page in publication:
- 324, 326
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 7.08 -
- SD:
- - -