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Happy Is As Happy Does

Table 2. Nine-year retest correlations of the MPQ Well Being scale.

NUMBER OF PAIRS

I INTRACLASS R

Cross-Time or-
Retest Correlation:

410

.55(±.02)

Cross-Time Cross-Twin
Correlations:
MZ Twins:

131

.54 (± .03)

DZ Twins:

74

.05 (± .07)

If happiness varies over time about a set-point that is characteristic of the individual then, of
course, it should be the level of that set-point that reflects genetic influences. The
MPQ-Well-
Being scale has a high alpha reliability and the 30-day retest reliability also is quite high. But
when we retested 4 10 of our twins some 9 years their first testing, the retest correlation for well-
being was only .55. On the other hand, the scores of MZ twins on the first testing correlated .54
with their
cotsvor ’ s scores 9 years later. That is, the cross-twin cross-time correlation is
essentially equal to the retest or
within-twin cross-time correlation, and this would suggest that
the heritability of the set-point of nearly 100%. Meanwhile, the
cross-twin cross-time correlation
for the 74 pairs of retested DZ twins was only .05 which, when corrected for attenuation in the
same way, rises only to
.09.



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