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Quality of Life Research
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03-05-2018

Prevalence of context effects: testing with a straightforward question of yesterday happiness

Auteur: Kitae Sohn

Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 8/2018

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Abstract

Purpose

Although contexts effects were found in responding to general happiness, it is little known how prevalent the effects can be in other measures of subjective wellbeing. If context effects are still found for a measure of subjective wellbeing that exhibits a host of features minimizing the effects, one can conclude that the effects can be quite prevalent. We aimed to assess this possibility.

Methods

We analyzed the Indonesian Family Life Survey by exploiting the random assignment of four versions of a list of 12 yesterday affects. The random assignment established causality on firmer ground. We applied ordered probit models by sex (10,162 men and 11,531 women): the dependent variable of interest was a measure of happiness, and the independent variables of interest were four affects that immediately preceded happiness.

Results

We found that when sadness immediately preceded happiness, men were 2.4% points more likely to say not at all happy and 2.5% points less likely to say very happy. The corresponding figures for women were 1.5 and 1.8% points. We, however, found no discernible context effects when boredom and anger immediately preceded happiness.

Conclusions

Context effects were still found for a measure of subjective wellbeing even when the effects were thought to be minimal. That said, the different influence of sadness versus boredom and anger suggests that there are ways to alleviate context effects.
vorige artikel Directionality of the relationship between social well-being and subjective well-being: evidence from a 20-year longitudinal study
volgende artikel Health-related quality of life of maltreated children and adolescents who attended a service center in Brazil
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Metagegevens
Titel
Prevalence of context effects: testing with a straightforward question of yesterday happiness
Auteur
Kitae Sohn
Publicatiedatum
03-05-2018
Uitgeverij
Springer International Publishing
Gepubliceerd in
Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 8/2018
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-1868-6

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