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

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 ef...

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Publicado en:Quality of Life Research Vol. 27; no. 8; pp. 2147 - 2156
Autor principal: Sohn, Kitae
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2018
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          Prevalence Indonesia
          Emotions Evaluation
          Happiness Evaluation
          Psychological Well-Being
          Human
          Male
          Female
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Indonesia
          Surveys
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
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      ab: 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.
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