DeVoe & Pfeffer (2009): study US 1987

Publication

Author(s):

DeVoe, S E; Pfeffer, J

Title:

When Is Happiness About How Much You Earn? The Effect of Hourly Payment on the Money-Happiness Connection.

Source:

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2009, Vol. 12, 1602 - 1618

Investigation

Public

Working people, USA, 1987 - 1988

Sample

Probability stratified sample

Respondents

N = 13007

Non Response

Assessment

Interview: face-to-face

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:

Self report on single question:

Next are some questions about how you see yourself and your life. Taking all things together, how would you say things are these days?
1  very unhappy
2
3
4
5
6
7  very happy

Classification:

O-HL-c-sq-n-7-b

Author's label:

subjective well-being

Page in publication:

1609

Observed distribution

Summary Statistics

On original range 1 - 7 On range 0-10

Mean:

5.38 7.30

SD:

1.34 2.23

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Income Household income Hourly status Hourly pay (vs salary) Number of hours worked per week Time spent on work and care
Work hours
Time spend on work Occupation Current occupation Gender Sex: male (vs female) Age Current age (in years) College degree or higher Level of school-education Marital status Married state (compared to non-married states) Number of children Number of children