Kamp Dush et al. (2008): study US 1980 /1
Publication
- Author(s):
- Kamp Dush, C.M.; Kroeger, R.A.; Taylor, M.G.
- Title:
- Marital Happiness and Psychological Well-Being Across the Life Course.
- Source:
- Family Relations, 2008, Vol. 57, 211 - 226
Investigation
- Public
- Married people, USA, followed 20 years 1980-2000
- Survey name
- US-Longitudinal study Instability of marriage over life course
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 2034
- Non Response
- 53% at wave 6
- Assessment
- Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Generally speaking; how would you say, you are these days.....?
1 very happy
2 pretty happy
3 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-ca
- Author's label:
- life happiness
- Remarks:
- T1 level of happines.
Reported on range 0-2: M = 1,41, SD = 0,57
Tranformed to range 1-3 by WDH team - Page in publication:
- 215
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.41 -
- SD:
- - -