VALUES, HAPPINESS AND FAMILY-STRUCTURE VARIABLES

This is a report of an investigation of interrelationships between val ue areas, happiness and family structure variables. The value areas we re: Security, Pro-social, Restrictive Conformity, Enjoyment, Achieveme nt, Self-direction and Maturity. It was found that women below the med ian on Happiness had significantly higher scores on all 7 value areas, while relatively unhappy men scored higher on 4 value areas only: Sec urity, Pro-social, Restrictive Conformity and Achievement. With regard to family structure variables, it was found that the most significant relationships between value areas were with family size (for both men and women), slightly fewer relationships were with birth order (4 for men and 7 for women), age-gap with regard to subsequent-born sibling (7 for men and 4 for women), and age-gap with regard to preceding sibl ing (3 for men and 5 for women).