| Publication |
| Author(s) | Ormel, J. |
| Title | Moeite met Leven of een Moeilijk Leven. (Difficulties with Living or a Difficult Life). |
| Source | Konstapel, 1980, Groningen, Netherlands |
| URL | http://www2.eur.nl/fsw/research/veenhoven/Pub1980s/84c-ch3-fulln.pdf |
| Investigation |
| Public | 15-60 aged, general public, followed 12 month, The Netherlands, 1967-77 |
| Last assesment | 1977 |
| | T1:1970, T2:1976, T3:1977 |
| Survey name | Not available |
| Sample | Not available |
| | Ss were selected from the 1970 panel "Medische Consumptie" (medical consumption), a national survey in the Netherlands. From this panel were discarded Ss living in 4 provincies and those under 15 or over 60 of age, resulting in 716 names. A probability sample from those names resulted in 232 possible respondents. In order to obtain a high amount of neurotic Ss, those of the remaining 484 Ss having a high score on neurosticism were added to the sample. This resulted in 363 Ss of which 296 fully participated.
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| Respondents N = | 296 |
| Non Response | 18% |
| Assesment | Interview: face-to-face |
| | Structured interview |
| Happiness measure(s) used |
| Author's label | | Our subject description |
| Adequacy of coping | show | Coping-success rating by others |
| Change in burdens in the last year (lowering) | show | Change in life-event burden |
| Change in happiness | show | Change over life time |
| Chronological age | show | Current age (in years) |
| Chronological age | show | Recent happiness (< 1 year ago), also classified as above ↑ |
| Closed attitude | show | Open |
| Closed attitude | show | Response tendencies, also classified as above ↑ |
| Community size | show | Earlier community size |
| Complaints about mental health | show | Earlier mental health |
| Complaints about physical health | show | Earlier physical health |
| Complaints about physical health | show | Later physical health, also classified as above ↑ |
| Complaints about physical health | show | Number of health complaints, also classified as above ↑ |
| Denial of illness | show | Denial of illness |
| Dissatisfaction with society | show | Development of anomy |
| Dissatisfaction with society | show | Satisfaction with moral climate , also classified as above ↑ |
| Earlier community size | show | Earlier residence |
| Inclination to answer positively | show | Approval seeking |
| Inclination to answer positively | show | Earlier tendency to agree, also classified as above ↑ |
| Inclination to answer positively | show | Response tendencies, also classified as above ↑ |
| Income | show | Current income level (unspecified) |
| Income | show | Later level of income, also classified as above ↑ |
| Internal control | show | Earlier inner-control |
| Internal control | show | Inner locus of control, also classified as above ↑ |
| Interpreting symptoms as illness | show | Conceptions of illness and healing |
| Intimacy between partners | show | Intimacy with spouse |
| Level of education | show | Level of school-education |
| Life-Quality | show | Summed life-events: weighted in context |
| Living alone | show | Living alone or not |
| Male sex | show | Sex (male vs female) |
| Negative affects | show | Earlier mood-pattern |
| Negative affects | show | Later mood-pattern, also classified as above ↑ |
| Neuroticism | show | Earlier psycho-somatic complaints |
| Past happiness | show | Past happiness ( 1 to 10 years ago) |
| Positive affects | show | Recent happiness (< 1 year ago) |
| Psycho-social burdens | show | Actual earlier problems (observed by follow-up) |
| Psycho-social burdens | show | Amount of problems perceived, also classified as above ↑ |
| Psycho-social burdens | show | Life-stress inventories, also classified as above ↑ |
| Readiness to consult a doctor | show | HAPPINESS: SEQUALE |
| Readiness to consult a doctor | show | Medical services, also classified as above ↑ |
| Readiness to consult a doctor | show | Trust in medical professionals, also classified as above ↑ |
| Received social support | show | Amount of current support received |
| Received social support | show | Earlier support received, also classified as above ↑ |
| Self esteem | show | Earlier self-image |
| Taking action on symptoms of illness | show | Current medical consumption |
| Tolerance degree | show | Current coping-style |
| Tolerance degree | show | Degree of self-disclosure, also classified as above ↑ |
| Tolerance degree | show | Earlier self-disclosing, also classified as above ↑ |
| Traumatic childhood experiences | show | Burden of earlier life-events |
| Unemployment | show | Current employment status |
| Unemployment | show | Earlier (un)employment, also classified as above ↑ |
| Unhappy childhood | show | In specific periods in the past |
| Urban living | show | Rural vs urban dwelling |