Cultural sensitivity; Culture; Happiness; Interdependent happiness; Life satisfaction; Self-construals; Selfhoods; Well-being; Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Abstract :
[en] 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.
Research center :
Lifespan Development, Family, and Culture
Disciplines :
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Krys, Kuba ; Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Haas, Brian W.; Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, United States
Igou, Eric Raymond; Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra; Wroclaw Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wrocław, Poland
Kocimska-Bortnowska, Agata; Wroclaw Faculty of Psychology, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wrocław, Poland
Kwiatkowska, Anna; Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi; Department of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong
Maricchiolo, Fridanna ; Department of Education, University of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Park, Joonha; Graduate School of Management, NUCB Business School, Nagoya, Japan
Šolcová, Iva Poláčková ; Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Sirlopú, David; Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile
Uchida, Yukiko; Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan ; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal
Vignoles, Vivian L.; School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
Zelenski, John M.; Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Adamovic, Mladen; King’s Business School, King’s College, London, United Kingdom
Akotia, Charity S.; Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
ALBERT, Isabelle ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Lifespan Development, Family and Culture
Appoh, Lily; Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Nord University, Bodø, Norway
Mira, D. M. Arévalo ; HULAB, San Salvador, El Salvador
Baltin, Arno; School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
Denoux, Patrick; Département Psychologie Clinique Du Sujet, Université Toulouse II, Toulouse, France
Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra; Psychology Department, Iberoamerican University, Mexico City, Mexico
Esteves, Carla Sofia; Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Palma de Cima, Lisboa, Portugal
Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer; Department of Psychology, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Fülöp, Márta; Institute of Psychology, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Budapest, Hungary ; Research Centre of Natural Sciences, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, Budapest, Hungary
Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.; Faculty of Psychology, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
Gavreliuc, Alin ; Department of Psychology, West University of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania
Boer, Diana; Institute of Psychology, University of Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany
Igbokwe, David O.; Baze University Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria
Işık, İdil; Organizational Psychology Master’s Program, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Kascakova, Natalia; Olomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic ; Psychiatric Clinic Pro Mente Sana, Bratislava, Slovakia
Klůzová Kráčmarová, Lucie; Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic ; Olomouc University Social Health Institute, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza; Institute of Psychology, Gdansk University, Gdańsk, Poland
Kostoula, Olga; Institute of Education and Psychology, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria
Kronberger, Nicole; Institute of Education and Psychology, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria
Lee, J. Hannah; Department of Psychology, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, United States
Liu, Xinhui; Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena; SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
Malyonova, Arina ; Department of General and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Dostoevsky Omsk State University, Omsk, Russian Federation
Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo; Psychology Department, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Mohorić, Tamara; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Mosca, Oriana; Department of Education, Psychology, Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
MURDOCK, Elke ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (DBCS) > Lifespan Development, Family and Culture
Mustaffa, Nur Fariza; Department of Business Administration, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nader, Martin; Department of Organizational Management, Universidad ICESI, Cali, Colombia
Nadi, Azar; Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Okvitawanli, Ayu; Psychology Department, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia
van Osch, Yvette; Department of Social Psychology, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
Pavlopoulos, Vassilis; Department of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Pavlović, Zoran; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Rizwan, Muhammad; University of Haripur, KPK, Pakistan
Romashov, Vladyslav; Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Røysamb, Espen; Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Sargautyte, Ruta ; Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Schwarz, Beate; Department of Applied Psychology, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland
Selim, Heyla A.; King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Serdarevich, Ursula; Universidad Nacional de La Matanza, San Justo, Argentina
Stogianni, Maria ; Department of Culture Studies, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
Sun, Chien-Ru; Department of Psychology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Teyssier, Julien; Département Psychologie Clinique Du Sujet, Université Toulouse II, Toulouse, France
van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P.; Psychology Department, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
Torres, Claudio; Institute of Psychology, University of Brasilia, Brasília, Brazil
Xing, Cai; Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
Bond, Michael Harris; Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong
Narodowe Centrum Nauki Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico Hungarian Scientific Research Fund Grantová Agentura České Republiky National Natural Science Foundation of China Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Funding text :
This work was supported by the Norway Grants 2014–2021 operated by the National Science Centre (Poland) under Project Contract No 2019/34/H/ HS6/00597 (GRIEG); National Science Centre (Poland) grant UMO-2016/23/D/HS6/02946; the Hungarian OTKA-K 135963, the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq under Grant 301298/2018-1; the Czech Science Foundation CSF under Grant 20-08583S, by the NPO, Systemic Risk Institute, LX22NPO510, EU - Next Generation EU; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 71873133; and the Department of Educational Studies, University of Roma Tre under biannual Grant DSF 2017–2018.
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