Study Muffels & Kemperman (2011): study XZ Germany West 1984
- Public
- 20-55 aged, women, Germany, 1984-2007
- Survey name
- DE-SOEP
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 90297
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Hours match
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Self report on preference for number of hours work a week, minus the self report on actual amount of hours work a week.
a: underworked: working at least 3 hours less than preferred
b: fit: =<3 hours of difference between preference and real muber of working hours.
c: overworked: working more than 3 hours more than preferred
Observed Relation with Happiness
Beta controlled for: Set A
Beta controlled for: Set A
Set A:
- number of hours per week working and caring
- importance of having children/success in a job
- marital status
- age
- age squared/100
- number of children 0-15 years
- unemployment rate
- born in east-Germany
- foreigner status
- education
- age youngest child
- objective health
Set B: (N = 70859)
- neuroticism
- agreeableness
- conscientiousness
- extraversion
- openness to experience
Set C:
- birth cohort
Set D:
- interaction: hours match*work orientation
Set E:
- interaction: hours match*work-care combinations
Interaction effect with workcare orientations:
only underworked work-centered and adaptive women and women with unplanned careers (drifters) score lower on SWB (vs women with a good fit & home centered)
Interaction effect with work-care combinations: only overworked women who
work without caring duties and women combining work and care but working more than 24 hours a week score significantlylower on SWB (vs women not working nor caring and good fit).
Fixed effects analysis yields similar results.