Stone Arthur A, Schneider Stefan, Krueger Alan, Schwartz Joseph E, Deaton Angus
Dornsife Center for Self-Report Science and the Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Dornsife Center for Self-Report Science, Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Soc Indic Res. 2018 Feb;136(1):359-378. doi: 10.1007/s11205-016-1532-x. Epub 2016 Dec 22.
There has been a recent upsurge of interest in self-reported measures of wellbeing by official statisticians and by researchers in the social sciences. This paper considers data from a wellbeing supplement to the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), which parsed the previous day into episodes. Respondents provided ratings of five experiential wellbeing adjectives (happiness, stress, tiredness, sadness, and pain) for each of three randomly selected episodes. Because the ATUS Well-being module has not received very much attention, in this paper we provide the reader with details about the features of these data and our approach to analyzing the data (e.g., weighting considerations), and then illustrate the applicability of these data to current issues. Specifically, we examine the association of age and income with all of the experiential wellbeing adjective in the ATUS. Results from the ATUS wellbeing module were broadly consistent with earlier findings on age, but did not confirm all earlier findings between income and wellbeing. We conclude that the ATUS, with its measurement of time use, specific activities, and hedonic experience in a nationally representative survey, offers a unique opportunity to incorporate time use into the burgeoning field of wellbeing research.
近期，官方统计学家和社会科学研究人员对自我报告的幸福感测度兴趣激增。本文考虑了来自《美国时间使用调查》（ATUS）幸福感补充调查的数据，该调查将前一天划分为多个时间段。受访者对随机选取的三个时间段中的每一个，就五个体验式幸福感形容词（幸福、压力、疲惫、悲伤和痛苦）给出评分。由于ATUS幸福感模块尚未受到太多关注，本文向读者详细介绍了这些数据的特征以及我们分析数据的方法（例如加权考量），然后说明这些数据在当前问题中的适用性。具体而言，我们考察了ATUS中年龄和收入与所有体验式幸福感形容词之间的关联。ATUS幸福感模块的结果与早期关于年龄的研究结果大致一致，但并未证实所有早期关于收入与幸福感之间关系的研究结果。我们得出结论，ATUS在全国代表性调查中对时间使用、具体活动和享乐体验进行了测度，为将时间使用纳入新兴的幸福感研究领域提供了独特契机。
