Table 1.
How was participants’ well-being related to their daily interactions? |
Did the effects differ on weekdays and weekend? |
Did personality differences account for the effects? |
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EAR-derived variables | Intercoder reliability | Well-being index | SWLS measure | Happiness measure | Well-being index | Well-being index resid. for Big Five | |
Weekdays | Weekendb | ||||||
Alone | .97 | -.35** | -.36** | -.27* | -.29** | -.35** | -.40** |
Talking to others | .95 | .31** | .31** | .26* | .30** | .30** | .39** |
Small talk | .76 | -.07 | -.03 | -.10 | -.01 | -.09 | .08 |
% of all conversations | ---a | -.33** | -.25* | -.35** | -.30** | -.34** | -.17 |
Substantive conversations | .84 | .31** | .26* | .30** | .27* | .31** | .36** |
% of all conversations | ---a | .28** | .20 | .31** | .28** | .27* | .22* |
Note: N = 79
p ≤ .05 (two-tailed)
p < .01 (two-tailed)
the variables are expressed as proportions of the total number of sampled sound files; %-variables are expressed as proportion of total number of conversations (i.e., the variable 'Talking to others'); intercoder reliabilities were computed from a training set of 221 EAR sound files which were independently coded by all coders (ICC[2,k]); the happiness measure is the average of self- and informant-ratings of happiness; the well-being index is the aggregate of participants’ self-reported life satisfaction (SWLS) and the happiness measure; resid. = residualized; SWLS = Satisfaction with Life Scale; Big Five = composite of self- and informant-reports of all five Big Five dimensions
no reliability reported because the variable is a quotient of two coded variables
defined as Friday 6:00 pm to Sunday at midnight.