Association of Health and Well-being dataset

This is a dataset containing effect size data of a meta-analysis examining the relationship between health status and well-being.

Usage

data("HealthWellbeing")

Format

A data.frame with 5 columns.

author: character. The study label containing the first author and year of the study.
cor: numeric. The Pearson correlation between health and well-being.
n: numeric. The sample size of the study.
population: character. The type of sample in which the effects were measured.
country: character. The country in which the study was conducted.

Source

Ngamaba, K. H., Panagioti, M., & Armitage, C. J. (2017). How strongly related are health status and subjective well-being? Systematic review and meta-analysis. The European Journal of Public Health, 27(5), 879-885.

Details

This data set is based on a meta-analysis examining the correlation between health status and subjective well-being (operationalized as life satisfaction or happiness; Ngamaba et al., 2017).

Author

Mathias Harrer