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Correlational findings

Study Lam et al. (1998): study HK 1995

Public
14+aged patients and students, Hong Kong 1996
Sample
Respondents
N = 236
Non Response
0%
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face
In Cantonese language

Correlate

Authors's Label
General Health
Our Classification
Distribution
M=51,46 SD=18,29 (transformed score on range 0-100)
Operationalization
Selfreport on 5 questions on  health during the last month.
a. Your health is: excelent … poor
b. As healthy as anybody
c. Health is excelent
d. Expect health to get worse
e. Seem to get sick a little easier
GH Subscale of SF-36 Health Survey (Ware et al. 1993)

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks M-TH-cm-sq-v-6-a r = +.22