| Study | VanOotegem & Verhofstadt (2015): study BE Flanders 2011 |
| Title | Perceived Capabilities as an Aggregated Indicatorfor Well-Being. |
| Source | Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2015, Vol.10, 615 - 629. |
| URL | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-014-9343-1/fulltext.html |
| DOI | doi: 10.1007/s11482-014-9343-1 |
| Public | General public, Flanders, Belgium, 2011+ 2012 |
| Sample | Probability sample (unspecified) |
| Non-Response | |
| Respondents N = | 2990 |
| Correlate | |
| Author's label | Personality trait 'hard to please' |
| Page in Source | table 5 |
| Our classification | Self-perceived happy nature |
| Operationalization | Selfreport on single question: I consider myself hard to please 0 completely disagree : 10 completely agree |
| Observed Relation with Happiness | ||
| Happiness Measure | Statistics | Elaboration/Remarks |
| O-SLW-u-sq-n-11-h | r=-.07 p < .01 | |
| Code | Full Text |
| O-SLW-u-sq-n-11-h | Self-report on single question: Taking all things together, how satisfied are you with your life as a whole? 10 very satisfied 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 very unsatisfied |
| Symbol | Explanation |
| r | PRODUCT-MOMENT CORRELATION COEFFICIENT (Also "Pearson's correlation coefficient' or simply 'correlation coefficient') Type: test statistic. Measurement level: Correlate: metric, Happiness: metric Range: [-1; +1] Meaning: r = 0 « no correlation , r = 1 « perfect correlation, where high correlate values correspond with high happiness values, and r = -1 « perfect correlation, where high correlate values correspond with low happiness values. |