| Publication | |
| Author(s) | Koivumaa-Honkanen, H.T. |
| Title | Life Satisfaction as a Health Predictor. |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertation, University of Turku, 1998, Finland (Kuopio University Publications D. Medical Sciences 143) |
| Investigation | |
| Public | 18-64 aged adult twin pairs, Finland, 1975 |
| Survey name | Not available |
| Sample | Non-probability purposive sample |
| Selected from Finnish twin cohort basic file, which continued sampled all Finnish twins born before 1958 with both members alive in 1975 | |
| Respondents N = | 29444 |
| Non Response | 271 |
| Assesment | Questionnaire: paper |
| Mailed questionnaire | |
| General remarks | This except reports the findings yielded by one item in a four item life-satisfaction scale. Unfortunately the full scale does not meet the validity demands of this database. Since most of the analyses are doen with the full scale, this except reports only a fraction of the findings. |
| Happiness measure(s) used | |
| Full text | Selfreport on single question Do you feel your life at present is…? 5 very happy 4 fairly happy 3 cannot say 2 fairly sad 1 very sad |
| Classification | O-HL-c-sq-v-5-j |
| Remarks | CI95 [3.85-3.87] Original scale is reversed. This item is part of a 4-item life satisfaction scale. The other items concern the agree to which life is 'interesting', 'easy', and 'lonely' and do not fit the demands for inclusion in this data base. |
| Finding used in nation ranks | Yes |
| On original range 1 - 5 | On range 0 - 10 | |
| Mean | 3.86 | 7.15 |
| Standard deviation |
| Author's label | Subject Code Finding | Subject description |
| Age | A04ab | Current age (in years) |
| Baseline health | H14ab | Current general health status |
| Gender | G01aa | Sex (male vs female) |
| general easy of living | L04ac01d | Easy (vs hard) |
| Interest in life | L04ac01 | Single aspect evaluations (on criteria of good life) |
| Life satisfaction | L04ac02 | Multiple aspect evaluations of life |
| Lonliness | M15ac05a | Feeling lonely (vs not) |