| Study | Schyns (2000): study DE 1992 |
| Title | The Relationship between Income, Changes in Income and Life-Satisfaction in West Germany and the Russian Federation. Relative, Absolute or a Combination of Both? |
| Source | Diener, E.;Rathz, D.R.;Eds.: "Advances in Quality of Life Theory and Research", Kluwer, 2000, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 83 - 110 |
| Public | 18+ aged general public, Germany, followed 4 years, 1992-1996 |
| Sample | Probability multi-stage cluster sample |
| Non-Response | |
| Respondents N = | 4398 |
| Correlate | |
| Author's label | Change in income |
| Page in Source | 101 |
| Our classification | Change in income level |
| Operationalization | Change (in %) in post-government montly household income from 1995 to 1996 (log) |
| Remarks | Assessed at T1: 1995; T2: 1996 |
| Observed Relation with Happiness | ||
| Happiness Measure | Statistics | Elaboration/Remarks |
| O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d | Beta=+.04 | T1 happiness by T1-T2 CHANGE in income level |
| O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d | Beta=0 | T2 happiness by T1-T2 CHANGE in income level Beta's controlled for: - Age - Education - Marital status - Employment status |
| Code | Full Text |
| O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-d | Selfreport on single question: Taking all things together, how satisfied are you with your life these days? Please answer with the help of this scale. For instance, when you are totally satisfied with your life, please tick '10'. When you are totally unsatisfied with your life, please tick '0'. You may use all values in between to indicate that you are neither totally satisfied nor totally unsatisfied." 10 totally satisfied 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 totally unsatisfied |
| Symbol | Explanation |
| Beta | STANDARDIZED REGRESSION COEFFICIENT by LEAST SQUARES (OLS) Type: test statistic. Measurement level: Correlates: all metric, Happiness: metric. Range: [-1 ; +1] Meaning: beta > 0 « a higher correlate level corresponds to a higher happiness rating on average. beta < 0 « a higher correlate level corresponds to a higher happiness rating on average. beta = 0 « no correlation. beta = + 1 or -1 « perfect correlation. |