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

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dc.abstract.enNumerous studies document that societal happiness is correlated with individualism, but the nature of this phenomenon remains understudied. In the current paper, we address this gap and test the reasoning that individualism correlates with societal happiness because the most common measure of societal happiness (i.e., country-level aggregates of personal life satisfaction) is individualism-themed. With the data collected from 13,009 participants across fifty countries, we compare associations of four types of happiness (out of which three are more collectivism-themed than personal life satisfaction) with two different measures of individualism. We replicated previous findings by demonstrating that societal happiness measured as country-level aggregate of personal life satisfaction is correlated with individualism. Importantly though, we also found that the country-level aggregates of the collectivism-themed measures of happiness do not tend to be significantly correlated with individualism. Implications for happiness studies and for policy makers are signaled.
dc.affiliationWydział Psychologii we Wrocławiu
dc.affiliationInstytut Psychologii
dc.contributor.authorKrys, Kuba
dc.contributor.authorPark, Joonha
dc.contributor.authorKocimska‑Zych, Agata
dc.contributor.authorKosiarczyk, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorSelim, Heyla A.
dc.contributor.authorWojtczuk‑Turek, Agnieszka
dc.contributor.authorHaas, Brian W.
dc.contributor.authorUchida, Yukiko
dc.contributor.authorTorres, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorCapaldi, Colin A.
dc.contributor.authorBond, Michael Harris
dc.contributor.authorZelenski, John M.
dc.contributor.authorMiu‑Chi Lun, Vivian
dc.contributor.authorMaricchiolo, Fridanna
dc.contributor.authorVauclair, Christin‑Melanie
dc.contributor.authorPoláčková Šolcová, Iva
dc.contributor.authorSirlopú, David
dc.contributor.authorXing, Cai
dc.contributor.authorVignoles, Vivian L.
dc.contributor.authorvan Tilburg, Wijnand A. P.
dc.contributor.authorTeyssier, Julien
dc.contributor.authorSun, Chien‑Ru
dc.contributor.authorStoyanova, Stanislava
dc.contributor.authorSerdarevich, Ursula
dc.contributor.authorSchwarz, Beate
dc.contributor.authorSargautyte, Ruta
dc.contributor.authorRøysamb, Espen
dc.contributor.authorRomashov, Vladyslav
dc.contributor.authorRizwan, Muhammad
dc.contributor.authorPavlović, Zoran
dc.contributor.authorPavlopoulos, Vassilis
dc.contributor.authorvan Osch, Yvette
dc.contributor.authorOkvitawanli, Ayu
dc.contributor.authorNadi, Azar
dc.contributor.authorNader, Martin
dc.contributor.authorNur Fariza, Mustaffa
dc.contributor.authorMosca, Oriana
dc.contributor.authorMohorić, Tamara
dc.contributor.authorBarrientos, Pablo Eduardo
dc.contributor.authorMalyonova, Arina
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Xinhui
dc.contributor.authorLee, J. Hannah
dc.contributor.authorKwiatkowska, Anna
dc.contributor.authorKronberger, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorKlůzová Kračmárová, Lucie
dc.contributor.authorKascakova, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorIşık. İdil
dc.contributor.authorIgou, Eric R.
dc.contributor.authorIgbokwe, David O.
dc.contributor.authorHanke‑Boer, Diana
dc.contributor.authorGavreliuc, Alin
dc.contributor.authorGarðarsdóttir, Ragna B.
dc.contributor.authorFülöp, Márta
dc.contributor.authorGamsakhurdia, Vladimer
dc.contributor.authorEsteves, Carla Sofia
dc.contributor.authorDomínguez‑Espinosa, Alejandra
dc.contributor.authorDenoux, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorCharkviani, Salome
dc.contributor.authorBaltin, Arno
dc.contributor.authorMira, Arévalo
dc.contributor.authorAppoh Lily
dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Isabelle
dc.contributor.authorAkotia, Charity S.
dc.contributor.authorAdamovic, Mladen
dc.date.access2020-10-01
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-04T09:03:51Z
dc.date.available2024-12-04T09:03:51Z
dc.date.created2020-09-04
dc.date.issued2021-06
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Numerous studies document that societal happiness is correlated with individualism, but the nature of this phenomenon remains understudied. In the current paper, we address this gap and test the reasoning that individualism correlates with societal happiness because the most common measure of societal happiness (i.e., country-level aggregates of personal life satisfaction) is individualism-themed. With the data collected from 13,009 participants across fifty countries, we compare associations of four types of happiness (out of which three are more collectivism-themed than personal life satisfaction) with two different measures of individualism. We replicated previous findings by demonstrating that societal happiness measured as country-level aggregate of personal life satisfaction is correlated with individualism. Importantly though, we also found that the country-level aggregates of the collectivism-themed measures of happiness do not tend to be significantly correlated with individualism. Implications for happiness studies and for policy makers are signaled. </jats:p>
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dc.description.issue5
dc.description.physical2197–2214
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume22
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y
dc.identifier.eissn1573-7780
dc.identifier.issn1389-4978
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1137
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsCC-BY
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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dc.subject.enFamily happiness
dc.subject.enInterdependent happiness
dc.subject.enLife satisfaction
dc.subject.enSelf-construals
dc.subject.enIndividualism
dc.subject.enCollectivism
dc.subject.enWell-being
dc.subject.enCulture
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dc.titlePersonal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries
dc.title.journalJournal of Happiness Studies
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle