Schwartz-Barcott & Schwartz (1990): study US 1972
Publication
- Author(s):
- Schwartz-Barcott, D.; Schwartz, T.P.
- Title:
- Are nurses healthier and happier than the general public?
- Source:
- Nursing Forum, 1990, Vol. 25, 19 - 24
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, 1972-1986
- Sample
- Probability stratified sample
- Respondents
- N = 19787
- Non Response
- not reported
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say that you are....?
3 very happy
2 pretty happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa
- Author's label:
- Personal happiness
- Page in publication:
- 23
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 12.8%, 2: 53.7%, 3: 32.9% (total 99.4%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.20 7.23
- SD:
- 0.65 1.68