A Cross-cultural Study On the Association Between Societal Conditions and the Idealization of Happiness

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Lou, Xiaobin
Haas, Brian W.
Zelenski, John M.
Xing, Cai
Vignoles, Vivian L.
Vauclair, Christin-Melanie
van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P.
Uchida, Yukiko
Teyssier, Julien
Torres, Claudio
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2025-06-05
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Applied Research in Quality of Life
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3
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20
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1289-1313
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1871-2584
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w
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2025-06-05
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Although most people aspire to be happy, the extent to which people pursue or idealize experiencing high levels of happiness does differ according to sociocultural context. This study was designed to elucidate which societal and cultural indicators are the most conducive to fostering high levels of happiness idealization. To accomplish this goal, we measured levels of happiness idealization for 11,170 participants residing in 43 different countries. We utilized machine learning (random forests approach) to examine how well an array of 18 different societal and cultural-level indicators were associated with country-level happiness idealization. We found robust and consistent evidence that greater cultural religiosity was associated with reduced idealization of happiness across four different types of happiness, including life satisfaction and interdependent happiness. These findings demonstrated that how much happiness is pursued varies considerably according to sociocultural context and highlights the role of cultural religiosity in shaping how people think about high levels of happiness.
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Happiness idealization
Satisfaction with Life
Interdependent happiness
Family happiness
Religiosity
Random forests
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