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Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2014 Jun 3;23(10):2809–2818. doi: 10.1007/s11136-014-0726-4

Table 5.

Sample Sizes, Means, and Standard Deviations of Life Satisfaction by Gender, Marital Status, and Employment Status in Germany.

	Germany (N = 1,312)
	Single-Item						SWLS
				Comparison						Comparison
					95% CI						95% CI
	n	M	SD	d	Lower	Upper	n	M	SD	d	Lower	Upper
Gender
Male^†	607	7.38	1.69				608	4.95	1.27
Female	705	7.39	1.61	−0.01	−0.11	0.10	704	4.86	1.26	0.07	−0.04	0.18
Marital Status
Married^†	749	7.58_a	1.51				747	5.13_a	1.13
Divorce/Separated	162	6.96_bc	1.77	0.40	0.23	0.57	162	4.34_c	1.35	0.67	0.50	0.85
Widowed	129	6.88_c	1.94	0.44	0.25	0.63	131	4.75_b	1.34	0.33	0.14	0.51
Never Married	272	7.35_ab	1.70	0.15	0.01	0.29	272	4.69_b	1.37	0.37	0.23	0.51
Employment Status
Employed^†	740	7.46_a	1.42				739	4.97_a	1.19
Unemployed	557	7.28_b	1.91	0.11	0.00	0.22	558	4.82_b	1.35	0.11	0.01	0.23
Overall	1312	7.38	1.64				1312	4.90	1.26

Note. † denotes the comparison group with which Cohen’s ds are computed. For marital status and employment status, means for the same measure that do not share a subscript are significantly different from each other at p<.05 (two-tailed).