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1. The Role of Cultural Heterogeneity in Strengthening the Link Between Family Relationships and Life Satisfaction in 50 Societies

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Li, Liman Man Wai, Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi, Bond, Michael Harris, Yeung, June Chun, Igou, Eric Raymond, Haas, Brian W., Stoyanova, Stanislava, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Zelenski, John M., Vauclair, Christin-Melanie, Uchida, Yukiko, Poláčková Šolcová, Iva, Sirlopú, David, Park, Joonha, Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra, Kocimska-Zych, Agata, Capaldi, Colin A., Adamovic, Mladen, Akotia, Charity S., Albert, Isabelle, Appoh, Lily, Arevalo, Douglas, Baltin, Arno, Denoux, Patrick, Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra, Esteves, Carla Sofia, Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer, Fülöp, Márta, Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B., Gavreliuc, Alin, Boer, Diana, Igbokwe, David O., Işık, İdil, Kascakova, Natalia, Klůzová Kračmárová, Lucie, Kostoula, Olga, Kronberger, Nicole, Kwiatkowska, Anna, Lee, J. Hannah, Liu, Xinhui, Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena, Malyonova, Arina, Barrientos Marroquin, Pablo Eduardo, Mohorić, Tamara, Mosca, Oriana, Murdock, Elke, Mustaffa, Nur Fariza, Nader, Martin, Nadi, Azar, Okvitawanli, Ayu, van Osch, Yvette, Pavlopoulos, Vassilis, Pavlović, Zoran, Rizwan, Muhammad, Romashov, Vladyslav, Røysamb, Espen, Sargautyte, Ruta, Schwarz, Beate, Selim, Heyla A., Serdarevich, Ursula, Stogianni, Maria, Sun, Chien-Ru, Teyssier, Julien, van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., Torres, Claudio, Vignoles, Vivian L., Xing, Cai, and Krys, Kuba

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2024
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2. Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures

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Krys, Kuba, Haas, Brian W., Igou, Eric Raymond, Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra, Kocimska-Bortnowska, Agata, Kwiatkowska, Anna, Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Park, Joonha, Šolcová, Iva Poláčková, Sirlopú, David, Uchida, Yukiko, Vauclair, Christin-Melanie, Vignoles, Vivian L., Zelenski, John M., Adamovic, Mladen, Akotia, Charity S., Albert, Isabelle, Appoh, Lily, Mira, D. M. Arévalo, Baltin, Arno, Denoux, Patrick, Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra, Esteves, Carla Sofia, Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer, Fülöp, Márta, Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B., Gavreliuc, Alin, Boer, Diana, Igbokwe, David O., Işık, İdil, Kascakova, Natalia, Klůzová Kráčmarová, Lucie, Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza, Kostoula, Olga, Kronberger, Nicole, Lee, J. Hannah, Liu, Xinhui, Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena, Malyonova, Arina, Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo, Mohorić, Tamara, Mosca, Oriana, Murdock, Elke, Mustaffa, Nur Fariza, Nader, Martin, Nadi, Azar, Okvitawanli, Ayu, van Osch, Yvette, Pavlopoulos, Vassilis, Pavlović, Zoran, Rizwan, Muhammad, Romashov, Vladyslav, Røysamb, Espen, Sargautyte, Ruta, Schwarz, Beate, Selim, Heyla A., Serdarevich, Ursula, Stogianni, Maria, Sun, Chien-Ru, Teyssier, Julien, van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., Torres, Claudio, Xing, Cai, and Bond, Michael Harris

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2023
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3. Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries

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Krys, Kuba, Park, Joonha, Kocimska-Zych, Agata, Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra, Selim, Heyla A., Wojtczuk-Turek, Agnieszka, Haas, Brian W., Uchida, Yukiko, Torres, Claudio, Capaldi, Colin A., Bond, Michael Harris, Zelenski, John M., Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Vauclair, Christin-Melanie, Poláčková Šolcová, Iva, Sirlopú, David, Xing, Cai, Vignoles, Vivian L., van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., Teyssier, Julien, Sun, Chien-Ru, Stoyanova, Stanislava, Serdarevich, Ursula, Schwarz, Beate, Sargautyte, Ruta, Røysamb, Espen, Romashov, Vladyslav, Rizwan, Muhammad, Pavlović, Zoran, Pavlopoulos, Vassilis, van Osch, Yvette, Okvitawanli, Ayu, Nadi, Azar, Nader, Martin, Nur Fariza, Mustaffa, Mosca, Oriana, Mohorić, Tamara, Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo, Malyonova, Arina, Liu, Xinhui, Lee, J. Hannah, Kwiatkowska, Anna, Kronberger, Nicole, Klůzová Kračmárová, Lucie, Kascakova, Natalia, Işık, İdil, Igou, Eric R., Igbokwe, David O., Hanke-Boer, Diana, Gavreliuc, Alin, Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B., Fülöp, Márta, Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer, Esteves, Carla Sofia, Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra, Denoux, Patrick, Charkviani, Salome, Baltin, Arno, Mira, Arévalo D. M., Appoh, Lily, Albert, Isabelle, Akotia, Charity S., and Adamovic, Mladen

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2021
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4. Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction : a forty-nine country study

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Krys, Kuba, Yeung, June Chun, Capaldi, Colin A., Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi, Torres, Claudio, van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., Bond, Michael Harris, Zelenski, John M., Haas, Brian W., Park, Joonha, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Vauclair, Christin-Melanie, Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra, Kocimska-Zych, Agata, Kwiatkowska, Anna, Adamovic, Mladen, Pavlopoulos, Vassilis, Fülöp, Márta, Sirlopu, David, Okvitawanli, Ayu, Boer, Diana, Teyssier, Julien, Malyonova, Arina, Gavreliuc, Alin, Uchida, Yukiko, Serdarevich, Ursula, Akotia, Charity, Appoh, Lily, Mira D. M., Arévalo, Baltin, Arno, Denoux, Patrick, Dominguez-Espinosa, Alejandra, Esteves, Carla Sofia, Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer, Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B., Igbokwe, David O., Igou, Eric R., Işık, İdil, Kascakova, Natalia, Klůzová Kračmárová, Lucie, Kronberger, Nicole, Lee, J. Hannah, Liu, Xinhui, Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo, Mohorić, Tamara, Mustaffa, Nur Fariza, Mosca, Oriana, Nader, Martin, Nadi, Azar, van Osch, Yvette, Pavlović, Zoran, Poláčková Šolcová, Iva, Rizwan, Muhammad, Romashov, Vladyslav, Røysamb, Espen, Sargautyte, Ruta, Schwarz, Beate, Selecká, Lenka, Selim, Heyla A., Stogianni, Maria, Sun, Chien-Ru, Xing, Cai, Vignoles, Vivian L., Department of Social Psychology, Rapid Social and Cultural Transformation: Online & Offline, Krys, Kuba, Yeung, June Chun, Capaldi, Colin A., Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi, Torres, Claudio, van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., Bond, Michael Harri, Zelenski, John M., Haas, Brian W., Park, Joonha, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Vauclair, Christin-Melanie, Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra, Kocimska-Zych, Agata, Kwiatkowska, Anna, Adamovic, Mladen, Pavlopoulos, Vassili, Fülöp, Márta, Sirlopu, David, Okvitawanli, Ayu, Boer, Diana, Teyssier, Julien, Malyonova, Arina, Gavreliuc, Alin, Uchida, Yukiko, Serdarevich, Ursula, Akotia, Charity, Appoh, Lily, Mira, D. M., Arévalo, Baltin, Arno, Denoux, Patrick, Dominguez-Espinosa, Alejandra, Esteves, Carla Sofia, Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer, Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B., Igbokwe, David O., Igou, Eric R., Işık, İdil, Kascakova, Natalia, Klůzová Kračmárová, Lucie, Kronberger, Nicole, Lee, J. Hannah, Liu, Xinhui, Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo, Mohorić, Tamara, Mustaffa, Nur Fariza, Mosca, Oriana, Nader, Martin, Nadi, Azar, van Osch, Yvette, Pavlović, Zoran, Poláčková Šolcová, Iva, Rizwan, Muhammad, Romashov, Vladyslav, Røysamb, Espen, Sargautyte, Ruta, Schwarz, Beate, Selecká, Lenka, Selim, Heyla A., Stogianni, Maria, Sun, Chien-Ru, Xing, Cai, Vignoles, Vivian L., and Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

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EXPRESSION, societal emotional environment, societal well-being, emotion regulation, emotion expression, life satisfaction, culture, Latin America, emotion regulation, Latin Americans, SELF-ESTEEM, Culture, Well-being, 050109 social psychology, Ciências Sociais::Psicologia [Domínio/Área Científica], 158: Angewandte Psychologie, 050105 experimental psychology, societal well-being, Societal emotional environment, Cross-cultural, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Forty Nine, Cross-cultural comparison, NEGATIVE EMOTIONS, Emotion expression, life satisfaction, General Psychology, POSITIVE AFFECT, Multi-level analysis, SUPPRESSION, HAPPINESS, Operationalization, Emotion regulation, 05 social sciences, Life satisfaction, culture, emotion expression, Latin America, CONSTRUCT, Degree (music), Cross-cultural studies, Life-satisfaction, Societal well- being, INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL, Psychology, Social psychology, COSTS
Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the concept of ‘societal emotional environment’: the emotional climate of a society (operationalized as the degree to which positive and negative emotions are expressed in a society). Using data collected from 12,888 participants across 49 countries, we show how societal emotional environments vary across countries and cultural clusters, and we consider the potential importance of these differences for well-being. Multilevel analyses supported a ‘double-edged sword’ model of negative emotion expression, where expression of negative emotions predicted higher life satisfaction for the expresser but lower life satisfaction for society. In contrast, partial support was found for higher societal life satisfaction in positive societal emotional environments. Our study highlights the potential utility and importance of distinguishing between positive and negative emotion expression, and adopting both individual and societal perspectives in well-being research. Individual pathways to happiness may not necessarily promote the happiness of others. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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2021
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5. TWO COUNTRIES, ONE HAPPINESS? THE INTERDEPENDENT HAPPINESS SCALE IN ITALY AND POLAND.

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MOSCA, ORIANA, MARICCHIOLO, FRIDANNA, KRYS, KUBA, and LAURIOLA, MARCO

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*LIFE satisfaction, *CONFIRMATORY factor analysis, *HAPPINESS, *VARIANCES, *FACTOR structure
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Although Interdependent Happiness Scale (IHS) has been used in different socio-cultural contexts, no study has tested the measurement invariance across countries. Because previous research did not agree on the dimensionality of the scale, we primarily investigated the factorial structure of the IHS, comparing the one-factor model to three-factor, second-order, and bifactor models. We also evaluated the applicability of the IHS to Italian (N = 290) and Polish samples (students: N = 253; community: N = 241) using a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis. We investigated also whether the scale measures an aspect of happiness different from satisfaction with life. The bifactor model fitted the sample data better than alternative models in all samples. The general factor accounted for over 90% of the reliable variance in the total IHS score for all samples. Our study supported the configural and metric invariance of the bifactor model in the Italian and Polish versions of the IHS, ensuring the comparability of correlations involving the IHS scores in the two different cultures and samples. We showed that IHS is not redundant with the SWLS, although the two concepts are deeply intertwined. Our findings provided support for a conceptualization of interdependent happiness as a hierarchically organized construct. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2021
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6. Family first

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Kuba Krys, June Chun Yeung, Brian W. Haas, Yvette van Osch, Aleksandra Kosiarczyk, Agata Kocimska-Zych, Claudio Torres, Heyla A. Selim, John M. Zelenski, Michael Harris Bond, Joonha Park, Vivian Miu-Chi Lun, Fridanna Maricchiolo, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Iva Poláčková Šolcová, David Sirlopú, Cai Xing, Vivian L. Vignoles, Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg, Julien Teyssier, Chien-Ru Sun, Ursula Serdarevich, Beate Schwarz, Ruta Sargautyte, Espen Røysamb, Vladyslav Romashov, Muhammad Rizwan, Zoran Pavlović, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Ayu Okvitawanli, Azar Nadi, Martin Nader, Nur Fariza Mustaffa, Elke Murdock, Oriana Mosca, Tamara Mohorić, Pablo Eduardo Barrientos Marroquin, Arina Malyonova, Xinhui Liu, J. Hannah Lee, Anna Kwiatkowska, Nicole Kronberger, Lucie Klůzová Kráčmarová, Natalia Kascakova, İdil Işık, Eric R. Igou, David O. Igbokwe, Diana Hanke-Boer, Alin Gavreliuc, Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir, Márta Fülöp, Vladimer Gamsakhurdia, Carla Sofia Esteves, Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa, Patrick Denoux, Salome Charkviani, Arno Baltin, Douglas Arevalo, Lily Appoh, Charity Akotia, Mladen Adamovic, Yukiko Uchida, Krys, Kuba, Chun Yeung, June, Haas, Brian W., van Osch, Yvette, Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra, Kocimska-Zych, Agata, Torres, Claudio, Selim, Heyla A., Zelenski, John M., Bond, Michael Harri, Park, Joonha, Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Vauclair, Christin-Melanie, Poláčková Šolcová, Iva, Sirlopú, David, Xing, Cai, Vignoles, Vivian L., van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., Teyssier, Julien, Sun, Chien-Ru, Serdarevich, Ursula, Schwarz, Beate, Sargautyte, Ruta, Røysamb, Espen, Romashov, Vladyslav, Rizwan, Muhammad, Pavlović, Zoran, Pavlopoulos, Vassili, Okvitawanli, Ayu, Nadi, Azar, Nader, Martin, Mustaffa, Nur Fariza, Murdock, Elke, Mosca, Oriana, Mohorić, Tamara, Barrientos Marroquin, Pablo Eduardo, Malyonova, Arina, Liu, Xinhui, Lee, J. Hannah, Kwiatkowska, Anna, Kronberger, Nicole, Klůzová Kráčmarová, Lucie, Kascakova, Natalia, Işık, İdil, Igou, Eric R., Igbokwe, David O., Hanke-Boer, Diana, Gavreliuc, Alin, Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B., Fülöp, Márta, Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer, Esteves, Carla Sofia, Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra, Denoux, Patrick, Charkviani, Salome, Baltin, Arno, Arevalo, Dougla, Appoh, Lily, Akotia, Charity, Adamovic, Mladen, and Uchida, Yukiko

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Cultural Studies, family, Social Psychology, relational mobility, Culture, Happiness, Interdependent happiness, Well-being, Relational mobility, family, happiness, well-being, interdependent happiness, life satisfaction, culture, relational mobility, culture, well-being, interdependent happiness, Anthropology, happiness, Family, Life satisfaction, life satisfaction
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People care about their own well-being, but also about the well-being of their families. It is currently however unknown how much people tend to value their own and their family’s wellbeing. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size (N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries (N = 49), We found that the strength of the idealization of family over personal happiness preference was small (average Cohen’s ds = .20 with country levels varying from -.02 to almost .48), but ubiquitous, i.e., direction presented in 98% of the studied countries, 73-75% with statistical significance and < 2% variance across countries. We also found that the size of this effect did vary somewhat across cultural contexts. In Latin American cultures highest on relational mobility, the idealization of family over personal happiness was very small (average Cohen’s ds for Latin America = .15 and .18), while in Confucian Asia cultures lowest on relational mobility, this effect was closer to medium (ds > .40 and .30). Importantly, we did not find strong support for traditional theories in cross-cultural psychology that associate collectivism with greater prioritization of the family versus the individual; country level individualism-collectivism was not associated with variation in the idealization of family versus individual happiness. Our findings indicate that no matter how much various populists abuse the argument of “protecting family life” to disrupt emancipation, family happiness seems to be a pan-culturally phenomenon. Family well-being is a key ingredient of social fabric across the world, and should be acknowledged by psychology and well-being researchers, and by progressive movements too.

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2023

7. Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living.

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Krys, Kuba, Kostoula, Olga, van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., Mosca, Oriana, Lee, J. Hannah, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra, Kocimska-Bortnowska, Agata, Torres, Claudio, Hitokoto, Hidefumi, Liew, Kongmeng, Bond, Michael H., Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi, Vignoles, Vivian L., Zelenski, John M., Haas, Brian W., Park, Joonha, Vauclair, Christin-Melanie, Kwiatkowska, Anna, and Roczniewska, Marta

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Psychological science tends to treat subjective well-being and happiness synonymously. We start from the assumption that subjective well-being is more than being happy to ask the fundamental question: What is the ideal level of happiness? From a cross-cultural perspective, we propose that the idealization of attaining maximum levels of happiness may be especially characteristic of Western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) societies but less so for others. Searching for an explanation for why “happiness maximization” might have emerged in these societies, we turn to studies linking cultures to their eco-environmental habitat. We discuss the premise that WEIRD cultures emerged in an exceptionally benign ecological habitat (i.e., faced relatively light existential pressures compared with other regions). We review the influence of the Gulf Stream on the Northwestern European climate as a source of these comparatively benign geographical conditions. We propose that the ecological conditions in which WEIRD societies emerged afforded them a basis to endorse happiness as a value and to idealize attaining its maximum level. To provide a nomological network for happiness maximization, we also studied some of its potential side effects, namely alcohol and drug consumption and abuse and the prevalence of mania. To evaluate our hypothesis, we reanalyze data from two large-scale studies on ideal levels of personal life satisfaction—the most common operationalization of happiness in psychology—involving respondents from 61 countries. We conclude that societies whose members seek to maximize happiness tend to be characterized as WEIRD, and generalizing this across societies can prove problematic if adopted at the ideological and policy level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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8. Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures

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Kuba Krys, Brian W. Haas, Eric Raymond Igou, Aleksandra Kosiarczyk, Agata Kocimska-Bortnowska, Anna Kwiatkowska, Vivian Miu-Chi Lun, Fridanna Maricchiolo, Joonha Park, Iva Poláčková Šolcová, David Sirlopú, Yukiko Uchida, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Vivian L. Vignoles, John M. Zelenski, Mladen Adamovic, Charity S. Akotia, Isabelle Albert, Lily Appoh, D. M. Arévalo Mira, Arno Baltin, Patrick Denoux, Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa, Carla Sofia Esteves, Vladimer Gamsakhurdia, Márta Fülöp, Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir, Alin Gavreliuc, Diana Boer, David O. Igbokwe, İdil Işık, Natalia Kascakova, Lucie Klůzová Kráčmarová, Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka, Olga Kostoula, Nicole Kronberger, J. Hannah Lee, Xinhui Liu, Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha, Arina Malyonova, Pablo Eduardo Barrientos, Tamara Mohorić, Oriana Mosca, Elke Murdock, Nur Fariza Mustaffa, Martin Nader, Azar Nadi, Ayu Okvitawanli, Yvette van Osch, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Zoran Pavlović, Muhammad Rizwan, Vladyslav Romashov, Espen Røysamb, Ruta Sargautyte, Beate Schwarz, Heyla A. Selim, Ursula Serdarevich, Maria Stogianni, Chien-Ru Sun, Julien Teyssier, Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg, Claudio Torres, Cai Xing, Michael Harris Bond, Department of Social Psychology, Department of Culture Studies, Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Krys, Kuba, Haas, Brian W., Igou, Eric Raymond, Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra, Kocimska-Bortnowska, Agata, Kwiatkowska, Anna, Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Park, Joonha, Šolcová, Iva Poláčková, Sirlopú, David, Uchida, Yukiko, Vauclair, Christin-Melanie, Vignoles, Vivian L., Zelenski, John M., Adamovic, Mladen, Akotia, Charity S., Albert, Isabelle, Appoh, Lily, Mira, D. M. Arévalo, Baltin, Arno, Denoux, Patrick, Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra, Esteves, Carla Sofia, Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer, Fülöp, Márta, Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B., Gavreliuc, Alin, Boer, Diana, Igbokwe, David O., Işık, İdil, Kascakova, Natalia, Klůzová Kráčmarová, Lucie, Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza, Kostoula, Olga, Kronberger, Nicole, Lee, J. Hannah, Liu, Xinhui, Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena, Malyonova, Arina, Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo, Mohorić, Tamara, Mosca, Oriana, Murdock, Elke, Mustaffa, Nur Fariza, Nader, Martin, Nadi, Azar, Okvitawanli, Ayu, van Osch, Yvette, Pavlopoulos, Vassili, Pavlović, Zoran, Rizwan, Muhammad, Romashov, Vladyslav, Røysamb, Espen, Sargautyte, Ruta, Schwarz, Beate, Selim, Heyla A., Serdarevich, Ursula, Stogianni, Maria, Sun, Chien-Ru, Teyssier, Julien, van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., Torres, Claudio, Xing, Cai, and Bond, Michael Harris

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cultural sensitivity, culture, happiness, interdependent happiness, life satisfaction, self-construals, selfhoods, well-being, Selfhoods, Culture, Happiness, Interdependent happiness, Well-being, Cultural sensitivity, Life satisfaction, Culture · Happiness, Well-being, Interdependent happiness, Life satisfaction, Cultural sensitivity, Selfhoods, Self-construals, Ciências Sociais::Outras Ciências Sociais [Domínio/Área Científica], Ciências Sociais::Psicologia [Domínio/Área Científica], Self-construals, Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Abstract

How can one conclude that well-being is higher in country A than country B, when well-being is being measured according to the way people in country A think about well-being? We address this issue by proposing a new culturally sensitive method to comparing societal levels of well-being. We support our reasoning with data on life satisfaction and interdependent happiness focusing on individual and family, collected mostly from students, across forty-nine countries. We demonstrate that the relative idealization of the two types of well-being varies across cultural contexts and are associated with culturally different models of selfhood. Furthermore, we show that rankings of societal well-being based on life satisfaction tend to underestimate the contribution from interdependent happiness. We introduce a new culturally sensitive method for calculating societal well-being, and examine its construct validity by testing for associations with the experience of emotions and with individualism-collectivism. This new culturally sensitive approach represents a slight, yet important improvement in measuring well-being.

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2022

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