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
Time since life change
Becoming a single mother