VandeVliert & Janssen (2002a): study ZZ 1986 /1
Publication
- Author(s):
- VandeVliert, E.; Janssen, O.
- Title:
- Competitive Societies are Happy if the Women are Less Competitive Than the Men.
- Source:
- Cross-Cultural Research, 2002, Vol. 36, 321 - 337
Investigation
- Public
- General public and students, 42 nations, 1986-1989
- Sample
- Non-probability chunk sample
- Respondents
- N = 42
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Questionnaire: Paper & Pencil Interview (PAPI)
Questionnaire completed in class
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
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Self report on single question:
Equivalent questions on happiness and life-satisfaction rated on various scales. The items differ slightly in wording and number of the response options.
Scores are transformed to a common range 0 - 10 by means of expert weighting of response options (Thurstone's method). - Classification:
- O-Sum-*-sq-nt-11-a
- Author's label:
- Subjective well-being
- Remarks:
- Expressed in Z scores
- Page in publication:
- 328
- Error estimates:
- alpha=.88
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 0 - 10 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- - -
- SD:
- 1.00 -