Krys, Kuba and Haas, Brian W and Igou, Eric R and Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra and Kocimska-Bortnowska, Agata and Kwiatkowska, Agata and Kwiatkowska, Anna and Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi and Maricchiolo, Fridanna and Park, Joonha and Poláčková Šolcová, Iva and Sirlopu, David and Uchida, Yukiko and Vauclair, Christin-Melanie and Vignoles, Vivian L and Zelenski, John M and Adamovic, Mladen and Akotia, Charity S and Albert, Isabelle and Appoh, Lily and Arévalo Mira, DM and Baltin, Arno and Denoux, Denoux and Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra and Esteves, Carla Sofia and Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer and Fülöp, Márta and Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B and Gavreliuc, Alin and Boer, Diana and Igbokwe, David O and Işık, İdil and Kascakova, Natalia and Klůzová Kračmárová, Lucie and Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza and Kostoula, Olga and Kronberger, Nicole and Lee, J Hannah and Liu, Xinhui and Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena and Malyonova, Arina and Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo and Mohorić, Tamara and Mosca, Oriana and Murdock, Elke and Mustaffa, Nur Fariza and Nader, Martin and Nadi, Azar and Okvitawanli, Ayu and Van Osch, Yvette and Pavlopoulos, Vassilis and Pavlović, Zoran and Rizwan, Muhammad and Romashov, Vladyslav and Røysamb, Espen and Sargautyte, Ruta and Schwarz, Beate and Selim, Heyla A and Serdarevich, Ursula and Stogianni, Maria and Sun, Chien-Ru and Teyssier, Julien and Van Tilburg, Wijnand and Taonrdre, Claudio and Xing, Cai and Bond, Michael Harris (2022) Introduction to a culturally sensitive measure of well-being: Combining life satisfaction and interdependent happiness across 49 different cultures. Journal of Happiness Studies, 24 (2). pp. 607-627. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
Krys, Kuba and Haas, Brian W and Igou, Eric R and Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra and Kocimska-Bortnowska, Agata and Kwiatkowska, Agata and Kwiatkowska, Anna and Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi and Maricchiolo, Fridanna and Park, Joonha and Poláčková Šolcová, Iva and Sirlopu, David and Uchida, Yukiko and Vauclair, Christin-Melanie and Vignoles, Vivian L and Zelenski, John M and Adamovic, Mladen and Akotia, Charity S and Albert, Isabelle and Appoh, Lily and Arévalo Mira, DM and Baltin, Arno and Denoux, Denoux and Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra and Esteves, Carla Sofia and Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer and Fülöp, Márta and Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B and Gavreliuc, Alin and Boer, Diana and Igbokwe, David O and Işık, İdil and Kascakova, Natalia and Klůzová Kračmárová, Lucie and Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza and Kostoula, Olga and Kronberger, Nicole and Lee, J Hannah and Liu, Xinhui and Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena and Malyonova, Arina and Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo and Mohorić, Tamara and Mosca, Oriana and Murdock, Elke and Mustaffa, Nur Fariza and Nader, Martin and Nadi, Azar and Okvitawanli, Ayu and Van Osch, Yvette and Pavlopoulos, Vassilis and Pavlović, Zoran and Rizwan, Muhammad and Romashov, Vladyslav and Røysamb, Espen and Sargautyte, Ruta and Schwarz, Beate and Selim, Heyla A and Serdarevich, Ursula and Stogianni, Maria and Sun, Chien-Ru and Teyssier, Julien and Van Tilburg, Wijnand and Taonrdre, Claudio and Xing, Cai and Bond, Michael Harris (2022) Introduction to a culturally sensitive measure of well-being: Combining life satisfaction and interdependent happiness across 49 different cultures. Journal of Happiness Studies, 24 (2). pp. 607-627. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
Krys, Kuba and Haas, Brian W and Igou, Eric R and Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra and Kocimska-Bortnowska, Agata and Kwiatkowska, Agata and Kwiatkowska, Anna and Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi and Maricchiolo, Fridanna and Park, Joonha and Poláčková Šolcová, Iva and Sirlopu, David and Uchida, Yukiko and Vauclair, Christin-Melanie and Vignoles, Vivian L and Zelenski, John M and Adamovic, Mladen and Akotia, Charity S and Albert, Isabelle and Appoh, Lily and Arévalo Mira, DM and Baltin, Arno and Denoux, Denoux and Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra and Esteves, Carla Sofia and Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer and Fülöp, Márta and Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B and Gavreliuc, Alin and Boer, Diana and Igbokwe, David O and Işık, İdil and Kascakova, Natalia and Klůzová Kračmárová, Lucie and Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza and Kostoula, Olga and Kronberger, Nicole and Lee, J Hannah and Liu, Xinhui and Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena and Malyonova, Arina and Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo and Mohorić, Tamara and Mosca, Oriana and Murdock, Elke and Mustaffa, Nur Fariza and Nader, Martin and Nadi, Azar and Okvitawanli, Ayu and Van Osch, Yvette and Pavlopoulos, Vassilis and Pavlović, Zoran and Rizwan, Muhammad and Romashov, Vladyslav and Røysamb, Espen and Sargautyte, Ruta and Schwarz, Beate and Selim, Heyla A and Serdarevich, Ursula and Stogianni, Maria and Sun, Chien-Ru and Teyssier, Julien and Van Tilburg, Wijnand and Taonrdre, Claudio and Xing, Cai and Bond, Michael Harris (2022) Introduction to a culturally sensitive measure of well-being: Combining life satisfaction and interdependent happiness across 49 different cultures. Journal of Happiness Studies, 24 (2). pp. 607-627. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
Abstract
How can one conclude that well-being is higher in country A than country B, when wellbeing is being measured according to the way people in country A think about wellbeing? 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 wellbeing 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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Culture; Happiness; Well-being; Interdependent happiness; Life satisfaction; Cultural sensitivity; Selfhoods; Self-construals |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
| SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jan 2023 13:14 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 20:54 |
| URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/33827 |
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