well: Three-wave data from the W research
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Three-wave data from the W research

Description

W refers to well-being. W research is a three-wave longitudinal survey research. Here are four data sets, well1 only includes data collected at wave 1, well2 at wave 2, and well3 at wave 3. well was created by joining well1, well2, and well3 together. well has done reverse-coding and has computed variable scores like flourish1, which indicates the flourish score at wave 1. well serves to ease users' practicing plotting and statistical analyzing. well1, well2, and well3 serves to support users' practicing data wrangling.

Usage

well

Format

`well`

A three-wave data frame with 200 rows and 413 columns:

id: Participant id
gender100: Gender. 0 = boy, 1 = girl. This variable ends with "100". The 1st digit indicates the wave number, and the last two digits indicate the item number. The rest variables also follow this naming rule.
age100: Age in years, wave 1.
grade100: Grade, wave 1.
income100: Monthly income (RMB) of the family, wave1.
loan300: National student loan in the past year. Reported at wave 3. 0 = Not received, 1 = Received.
cost100: Monthly cost of the participant, wave1. "1" = "<500RMB", "2" = "500-1000RMB", "3" = "1000-1500RMB","4" = "1500-2000RMB","5" = "2000-2500RMB", "6" = ">2500RMB".
SSES100: Subjective Socioeconomic Status, wave1. SSES was measured through the 10-step social ladder, with high scores indicating high status.
heema101: HEEMA scale, wave 1, item 01. HEEMA = The Hedonic, Eudaimonic, and Extrinsic Motivations for Activities (Lefebvre & Huta, 2021). HEEMA was rated on a 7-point scale (1 = not at all, 7 = very much). HEEMA measures three kind of motivations: Hedonic (item 01, 04, 06, 07, 09, 16), eudaimonic (item 02, 03, 05, 08, 10), and Extrinsic (item 11, 12, 13, 14, 15).
cssp101: Career Social Support from Parents, wave 1, item 01. CSS investigates four kind of support using a 5-point scale (1 = almost none, 5 = very much; Hou et al, 2010): material (item 01, 02, 03), advice (item 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09), emotional (item 10, 11, 12, 13), and information (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20).
csss101: Career Social Support from Siblings, wave 1, item 01.
csst101: Career Social Support from Teachers, wave 1, item 01.
cssf101: Career Social Support from Friends, wave 1, item 01.
cssr101: Career Social Support from Relatives, wave 1, item 01.
grit101: Grit scale (Wei & Hu, 2017), wave 1, item 01. Grit is rated on a 5-point scale (1 = not at all like me, 5 = very much like me). Item 1, 3, 5, and 6 should be reverse-scored. Grit has two dimensions: perseverance (item 02, 04, 07, 08) and passion (item 01, 03, 05, 06). After reverse scoring, high scores indicate high perseverance and passion.
CET4100: CET4 score, wave 1. CET4 = College English Test Band 4. 0 = participants had not taken CET4 test.
flourish101: Flourish scale, wave 1, item 01. Flourish scale (Tong & Wang, 2017) was rated on a 5-point scale (1 = very disagree, 7 = very agree), with high scores indicating high eudaimonic well-being.
spne101: SPNE scale, wave 1, item 01. SPNE = Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (Tong & Wang, 2017). SPNE measures positive (item 01, 03, 05, 07, 10, 12) and negative (item 02, 04, 06, 08, 9, 11) emotions on a 5-point scale (1 = very rarely or never, 5 = very often or always). High positive emotion and low negative emotion indicate high hedonic well-being.
flourish1: Flourish, wave 1. All scale scores and dimension scores in this data are computed by averaging corresponding items.
posEmo1: Positive Emotions, wave 1.
negEmo1: Negative Emotions, wave 1.
grit1: Grit, wave 1.
perseverance1: Perseverance, wave 1.
passion1: Passion, wave 1.
hedonic1: Hedonic well-being motivation, wave 1.
eudaimonic1: Eudaimonic well-being motivation, wave 1.
extrinsic1: Extrinsic well-being motivation, wave 1.
csspm1: Career Social Support, Parents, Material, wave 1.
csspa1: Career Social Support, Parents, Advice, wave 1.
csspe1: Career Social Support, Parents, Emotional, wave 1.
csspi1: Career Social Support, Parents, Information, wave 1.
csssm1: Career Social Support, Siblings, Material, wave 1.
csstm1: Career Social Support, Teachers, Material, wave 1.
cssfm1: Career Social Support, Friends, Material, wave 1.
cssrm1: Career Social Support, Relatives, Material, wave 1.
cssp1: Career Social Support, Parents, wave 1.
cssm1: Career Social Support, Material, wave 1.

Source

Keng package.

References

Lefebvre, A., & Huta, V. (2021). Age and gender differences in eudaimonic, hedonic, and extrinsic motivations. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22, 2299-2321.

Hou, Z., Bai, R., & Yao, Y. (2010). Development of career social support inventory for Chinese college students. Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 18(4), 439-442.

Wei, Y., & Hu, J. (2017). Grit: Concept, structure, influencing factors, and consequences. Psychology: Techniques and Applications, 5(1), 52-61.

Tong, K. K. & Wang, Y. Y. (2017). Validation of the Flourishing Scale and Scale of Positive and Negative Experience in a Chinese Community Sample. PLUS ONE, 12(8), e0181616.

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