Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures

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dc.abstract.enHow 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.
dc.affiliationFaculty of Psychology in Wroclaw
dc.contributor.authorKrys, Kuba
dc.contributor.authorHaas, Brian W.
dc.contributor.authorIgou, Eric Raymond
dc.contributor.authorKosiarczyk, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorKocimska‑Bortnowska, Agata
dc.contributor.authorKwiatkowska, Anna
dc.contributor.authorMiu‑Chi Lun, Vivian
dc.contributor.authorMaricchiolo, Fridanna
dc.contributor.authorPark, Joonha
dc.contributor.authorPoláčková Šolcová, Iva
dc.contributor.authorSirlopú, David
dc.contributor.authorUchida, Yukiko
dc.contributor.authorVauclair, Christin‑Melanie
dc.contributor.authorVignoles, Vivian L.
dc.contributor.authorZelenski, John M.
dc.contributor.authorAdamovic, Mladen
dc.contributor.authorAkotia, Charity S.
dc.contributor.authorAlbert, Isabelle
dc.contributor.authorAppoh, Lily
dc.contributor.authorArévalo Mira, D. M.
dc.contributor.authorBaltin, Arno
dc.contributor.authorDenoux, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorDomínguez‑Espinosa, Alejandra
dc.contributor.authorEsteves, Carla Sofa
dc.contributor.authorGamsakhurdia, Vladimer
dc.contributor.authorFülöp, Márta
dc.contributor.authorGarðarsdóttir, Ragna B.
dc.contributor.authorGavreliuc, Alin
dc.contributor.authorBoer, Diana
dc.contributor.authorIgbokwe, David O.
dc.contributor.authorIşık, İdil
dc.contributor.authorKascakova, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorKráčmarová, Lucie Klůzová
dc.contributor.authorKosakowska‑Berezecka, Natasza
dc.contributor.authorKostoula, Olga
dc.contributor.authorKronberger, Nicole
dc.contributor.authorLee, J. Hannah
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Xinhui
dc.contributor.authorŁużniak‑Piecha, Magdalena
dc.contributor.authorMalyonova, Arina
dc.contributor.authorBarrientos, Pablo Eduardo
dc.contributor.authorMohorić, Tamara
dc.contributor.authorMosca, Oriana
dc.contributor.authorMurdock, Elke
dc.contributor.authorMustafa, Nur Fariza
dc.contributor.authorNader, Martin
dc.contributor.authorNad, Azar
dc.contributor.authorOkvitawanli, Ayu
dc.contributor.authorvan Osch, Yvette
dc.contributor.authorPavlopoulos, Vassilis
dc.contributor.authorPavlović, Zoran
dc.contributor.authorRizwan, Muhammad
dc.contributor.authorRomashov, Vladyslav
dc.contributor.authorRøysamb, Espen
dc.contributor.authorSargautyte, Ruta
dc.contributor.authorSchwarz, Beate
dc.contributor.authorSelim, Heyla A.
dc.contributor.authorSerdarevich, Ursula
dc.contributor.authorStogianni, Maria
dc.contributor.authorSun, Chien‑Ru
dc.contributor.authorTeyssier, Julien
dc.contributor.authorvan Tilburg, Wijnand A. P.
dc.contributor.authorTorres, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorXing, Cai
dc.contributor.authorBond, Michael Harris
dc.date.access2022-12-26
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-03T08:35:18Z
dc.date.available2024-12-03T08:35:18Z
dc.date.created2022-09-24
dc.date.issued2023-02
dc.description.abstract<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>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.</jats:p>
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dc.description.physical607–627
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume24
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
dc.identifier.eissn1573-7780
dc.identifier.issn1389-4978
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1132
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
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.enCulture
dc.subject.enHappiness
dc.subject.enWell-being
dc.subject.enInterdependent happiness
dc.subject.enLife satisfaction
dc.subject.enCultural sensitivity
dc.subject.enSelfhoods
dc.subject.enSelf-construals
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dc.titleIntroduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures
dc.title.journalJournal of Happiness Studies
dc.typeJournalArticle
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