Snider (1980): study CA 1976
Publication
- Author(s):
- Snider, E.L.
- Title:
- Explaining Life Satisfaction: It's the Elderly's Attitudes that Count.
- Source:
- Social Science Quarterly, 1980, Vol. 61, 253 - 263
Investigation
- Public
- 65+ aged, retired whites, Edmonton, Canada, 1976
- Sample
- Probability systematic sample
- Respondents
- N = 428
- Non Response
- 10%
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
"On the whole, how satisfied would you say you are with your life.....?"
1 not very satisfied
2 fairly satisfied
3 very satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLu-g-sq-v-3-a
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Error estimates:
- Validity: Zero-order correlations with related phenomena at 01 level of significance, including 'accomplishing life goals' (+.27), 'to relive life exactly' (+.13), 'life happiness compared with others with the same age' (+.27), 'present happiness' (+.54)
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 7.2%, 2: 47.4%, 3: 45.1% (total 99.7%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.40 6.90
- SD:
- 0.60 -