| Study | Tissue & Wells (1971): study US 1971 |
| Title | Antecedent Life Styles and Old Age. |
| Source | Psychological Reports, 1971, Vol. 29, 1100 |
| Public | Applicants for old age assistance, USA, 1971. |
| Sample | Non-probability purposive sample |
| Non-Response | |
| Respondents N = | 256 |
| Correlate | |
| Author's label | Number of current friends |
| Page in Source | 29 |
| Our classification | Current number of friends |
| Operationalization | Self report. Question not reported. |
| Remarks | Current contacts correlated with retrospective contacts in middle adulthood (age 30-60. ChiČ=9.82 p<.01) |
| Observed Relation with Happiness | ||
| Happiness Measure | Statistics | Elaboration/Remarks |
| A-BB-cm-mq-v-2-a | t.=1.72 p < .05 | Only among elderly who reported to have had much
social contacts in middle adulthood ('actives').
Not among earlier 'loners' and 'intermediates'.
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| Code | Full Text |
| A-BB-cm-mq-v-2-a | Selfreport on 10 questions: During the past few weeks, did you ever feel ....? (yes/no) A Particularly excited or interested in something? B So restless that you couldn't sit long in a chair? C Proud because someone complimented you on something you had done? D Very lonely or remote from other people? E Pleased about having accomplished something? F Bored? G On top of the world? H Depressed or very unhappy? I That things were going your way? J Upset because someone criticized you? Answer options and scoring: yes = 1 no = 0 Summation: -Positive Affect Score (PAS): A+C+E+G+I -Negative Affect Score (NAS): B+D+F+H+J -Affect Balance Score (ABS): PAS minus NAS Possible range: -5 to +5 Name: Bradburn's 'Affect Balance Scale' (standard version) |
| Symbol | Explanation |
| t. | t-STATISTIC (Student's t-statistic) Type: symmetric standard test statistic. One parameter: n (= number of degrees of freedom (df) ; range df: [1; + infinite) Range for t: unlimited Meaning : the test statistic is the ratio of a difference between a statistic and its expected value under the null hypothesis and its (estimated) standard error with n degrees of freedom. The critical values of its probability distribution are tabulated extensively in almost any textbook on Statistics. |