Muffels et al. (2012): study ZZ Europe 2008
Publication
- Author(s):
- Muffels, R.; Dingemans, E.; Skugar, D.
- Title:
- Money Does not Buy much Happiness, but what have Income Inequality, Modernization and Personal values got to do with It?
- Source:
- Tilburg University REFLECT Research Paper, 2012, No.1, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged general public, 47 countries, 2008
- Survey name
- EU-EVS
- Sample
- Probability multistage stratified area sample
- Respondents
- N = 67216
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
All things considered, how satisfied are you with your life as-a-whole these days?
1 dissatisfied
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10 satisfied - Classification:
- O-SLW-c-sq-n-10-a
- Author's label:
- Subjective wellebing (SWB)
- Page in publication:
- 7, 26
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 6.97 6.63
- SD:
- 2.32 2.58
Correlational Findings
Personal income in nation
`objective` poverty
Subjective poverty
Relative to income of compatriots
Concern about family
Social values
Leisure values
Intrinsic motivation
Extrinsic motivation
Current motivation to work
Religiosity (degree)
Attitudes to family of procreation
Gender-role attitudes
Modern value pattern
Egalitarian values
Gender attitudes
Married (vs widowed)
Married (vs divorced)
Married (vs separated)