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Supplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jcc-10.1177_00220221221134711 for Family First: Evidence of Consistency and Variation in the Value of Family Versus Personal Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures by 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 and Yukiko Uchida in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

The master thesis is about the role of teacher self-efficacy in students’ achievement in developing post-Soviet country such as Georgia. The research reviews evaluation strategies of teachers, different practices and theory. Nature of low achievement is discussed related to socio-economic status, importance of parenting, good teaching, SEN skills, and social environment and health issues. Another large topic is a part of teacher self-efficacy in the evaluation process of teachers’ effectiveness. The quantitative research was held in Tbilisi schools. Respondents were teachers of the classes from 6 to 10th grades. The mean of their self-efficacy was not different with the mean of their colleagues, despite correlation between self-efficacy and students’ achievement could not be confirmed. Only the one factor – efficacy in student engagement was correlated with students’ low achievement. Difference was not significant among the number of low achiever students in central and suburban schools but in private schools there were less low achiever students than in public schools which was mainly explained by the difference of socio-economic status of the families. The length of experience and holding professional certificates did not have influence on their self-efficacy. Class size did not matter with the number of low achiever students in the classroom. Georgian Social-economic and historical context and Educational politics was discussed in the context of the variables listed above. The researchers were advised to inquire low achievement and its factors since 2020-22 when the Government of Georgia will provide scientific data about teachers and students in Georgian schools.

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.