Study Muffels et al. (2012): study ZZ Europe 2008
- Public
- 18+ aged general public, 47 countries, 2008
- Survey name
- EU-EVS
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 67216
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Modernization Values Index Score
- Our Classification
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- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Modernization value index is constructed by combining various self-report indices of
a. egalitarian gender roles
b.leisure activities
c. intrinsic work values
d. post materialistic value orientations but lower importance to religion and work values.
Observed Relation with Happiness
OPRC controlled for (model 9):
- Individual characterisrtics
- age, age squared, age cubed
- employmnet status
- marital status
- bad health
- gender
- income
- log relative HH income
- log household income
- Low income status
- nation characteristics
- log GDP/capita
- unemployment rate
- income inequality (GINI)
- Average endorsement of social values
- Individual characteristics
- Education
- Marital status
- Number of children
- Death of a child event
- Religion
- Church Attendence
- Social Participation
- nation characteristics
- GDP annual growth rate
- modernity (HDI)
- Cross lvel interactions
- Social values*HDI
- Modernization values*HDI
- Social values*GINI
- Modernization values*GINI
When the control variables are added the coefficient of Modernization values becomes negative and insignificant.
Stronger in the more equal nations
Stronger in the most modern nations