1.5.4 Who Is Happy? Flashcards
Who conducted the research and when?
Myers and deiner
1995
The research wants to understand how we can improve people’s lives by doing what?
Making them happier
Myers and deiner looked at the evidence for what?
What makes people happy
(M and P) What research method was used and what did this involve?
Literature review
Searched for articles relating to finding out who is happy
(M and P)The research they reviewed used methods such as what?
Self reports Observations Correlations Reviews Meta analysis
(M and P) In self report methods questionnaires and interviews were used to measure what?
Subjective sense of wellbeing
(M and P) What type of questions were used in self report?
Open and closed
(M and P) What needs to be done to happiness in self reports?
Operationalised
(M and P) What type of questionnaires was it easier to operationalise happiness in?
Closed
(M and P) Give an example of a closed question operationalising happiness?
How often did you smile today?
Every 10 minutes
Every half and hour
Every hour
(M and P) Research also used observations using what?
Pagers/beepers
(M and P) How did the pagers/beepers work?
Person would get a message asking how they were feeling and would record it
(M and P) Some research used correlations looking at how happiness did what?
Covaried with other factors like age or income
(M and P) other research used reviews or meta analysis combining what?
A number of pieces of research
(Findings - myths) age - inglehart found no time in life is what? How was this shown?
No more happy or unhappy
Survey of 16 countries all ages reported 80% life satisfaction
(Findings - myths) age - depression, suicide and divorce are not what?
Restricted to a certain age e.g. Mid life crisis during your 40s you can have a crisis at any age
(Findings - myths) age - empty nest syndrome is rare most couples are what after the kids have left?
Happy after the stress of raising them
(Findings - myths) age - with different ages different factors contribute to happiness, what becomes more important in later life?
Health
Social relationships
(Findings - myths) sex - ingleharts survey found what percent of men and women were satisfied with life?
80%
(Findings - myths) sex - in a meta analysis gender accounted for what percent of wellbeing?
1%
(Findings - myths) sex - men are 5x more vulnerable to what?
Alcoholism
(Findings - myths) sex - women are twice as vulnerable to what?
Depression and anxiety
(Findings - myths) money - people’s income in the US doubled between 1957-93 but what happened to happiness?
Fell by 3%
(Findings - myths) money - survey of US what percent of students said being well off financially was an essential life goal?
75%
