| Publication |
| Author(s) | Burke, R.J. |
| Title | The Closing at Canadian Admiral Correlates of Individual Well-Being Sixteen Months After Shutdown. |
| Source | Psychological Reports ,1984, Vol. 55, 91 - 98 |
| URL | http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/pr0.1984.55.1.91 |
| Investigation |
| Public | Former employees, Ontario, Canada, 1982 |
| | Respondents were all former employees of Canadian Admiral, interviewed 16 months after the plant closed down. |
| Survey name | Unnamed study |
| Sample | Non-probability purposive sample |
| | The survey was mailed out to 360 men and women, whose names and addresses were provided during the plant's closing in 1981. |
| Respondents N = | 183 |
| Non Response | 49% |
| | Of the 360 addresses 43 were returned because individuals had moved to an unknown address. Of the rest 183 completed the questionnaire. |
| Assesment | Questionnaire: paper |
| Happiness measure(s) used |
| Author's label | | Our subject description |
| Age | show | Current age (in years) |
| Desired advance notice | show | Attitudes to life-events |
| Desired advance notice | show | Attitudes to own (un)employment, also classified as above ↑ |
| Desired advance notice | show | Coping with unemployment, also classified as above ↑ |
| Education | show | Level of school-education |
| Family 'slack' | show | Sufficiency of current income |
| Hourly wage rate | show | Personal income |
| Job characteristics | show | Change in employment |
| Job characteristics | show | Switch to other job, also classified as above ↑ |
| Job satisfaction | show | Earlier satisfaction with work |
| Marital and family satisfaction | show | Satisfaction with family-life |
| Marital and family satisfaction | show | Satisfaction with marriage, also classified as above ↑ |
| Pay (new vs. Admiral) | show | Hourly pay (vs salary) |
| Perceived job prospects | show | Perceived chances for employment |
| Psychosomatic symptoms | show | Current psycho-somatic complaints |
| Temporary job (vs. permanent) | show | Tenure (vs flex contracts) |
| Time in Cambridge | show | Current residential mobility |
| Total weeks unemployment benefit | show | Duration of unemployment |
| Unemployed immediately | show | Earlier (un)employment |
| Unemployed immediately | show | Falling unemployed, also classified as above ↑ |
| Weeks unemployed | show | Duration of unemployment |
| Weeks unemployment benefit | show | Duration of unemployment |
| Weeks unemployment benefit | show | Welfare, also classified as above ↑ |