Spreitzer et al. (1975): study US 1973
Publication
- Author(s):
- Spreitzer, E.; Larson, D.L.; Snyder, E.E.
- Title:
- Age, Marital Status, and Labor Force Participation as Related to Life Satisfaction.
- Source:
- Sex Roles, 1975, Vol. 1, 235 - 247
Investigation
- Public
- 18+ aged, general public, USA, 1973
- Survey name
- US-NORC
- Sample
- Probability sample (unspecified)
- Respondents
- N = 1500
- Non Response
- -
- Assessment
-
Interview: face-to-face
Structured interview
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
Taken all together, how would you say things are these days? Would you say that you are....?
3 very happy
2 pretty happy
1 not too happy - Classification:
- O-HL-c-sq-v-3-aa
- Author's label:
- Life satisfaction
- Observed distribution
- Frequencies
- 1: 13%, 2: 51%, 3: 36% (total 100%)
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 3 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 2.23 7.30
- SD:
- 0.66 1.72