Kamp Dush et al. (2008): study US 1980

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- BRFSS 2005

Sample:

Probability simple random sample

Respondents:

N = 962

Non Response:

53%

Assessment:

Interview: telephone (CATI)

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:

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:

Happiness at  T1

Page in publication:

214

Observed distribution

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10

Mean:

1.41 -

SD:

0.57 -

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Change in marital happiness over 20 years: Trajectory types Later satisfaction with current marriage Children less than 18 Ever had children (vs not) Family Income Household income Use of public assistance Income from social security Wife employed full time Part-time working of house-wives
Employment of spouse
Spouse part-time employed Wife extended hours Earlier work hours Husband employed Employment of spouse
Employment of husband Husband share housework Shared household-tasks
Modern marriage Equal decision making Current characteristics of marriage-relationship
Modern marriage Traditional gender attitude Gender-role attitudes
Modern value pattern
Modern marriage Traditional marriage attitude Conservative
Modern value pattern
Family values R-squared within/between Summed effect of earlier conditions