Study Flavin et al. (2011): study ZZ Developed nations 2005
- Public
- 15+ aged, general public, 15 Industrialized Democracies, 2005-2009.
- Survey name
- INT-WVS: combined waves
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 10405
- Non Response
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Trust in others
- Our Classification
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- Operationalization
- Self-report on single question:
"Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you nee dto be very careful indealing with people?"
1: most people can be trusted
0: need to be very careful
Observed Relation with Happiness
B controlled for:
-National characteristics
-Size of the state
-GDP
-Unemployment rate
-Individualism
-Individual characteristics
-Income
-Education
-Health
-Female
-Age
-Married
-Unemployed
-Church attendance
-Religion
Controlled for tax revenue as a measure of the size of the state, same results if controlled for government share of GDP, social wage, or social welfare expenditures.