Family First: Evidence of Consistency and Variation in the Value of Family Versus Personal Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures

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dc.abstract.enPeople care about their own well-being and about the well-being of their families. It is currently, however, unknown how much people tend to value their own versus their family’s well-being. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size (N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries (N = 49). We found that the strength of the idealization of family over personal happiness preference was small (average Cohen’s ds = .20, range −.02 to.48), but present in 98% of the studied countries, with statistical significance in 73% to 75%, and variance across countries <2%. We also found that the size of this effect did vary somewhat across cultural contexts. In Latin American cultures highest on relational mobility, the idealization of family over personal happiness was very small (average Cohen’s ds for Latin America = .15 and .18), while in Confucian Asia cultures lowest on relational mobility, this effect was closer to medium (ds > .40 and .30). Importantly, we did not find strong support for traditional theories in cross-cultural psychology that associate collectivism with greater prioritization of the family versus the individual; country-level individualism–collectivism was not associated with variation in the idealization of family versus individual happiness. Our findings indicate that no matter how much various populists abuse the argument of “protecting family life” to disrupt emancipation, family happiness seems to be a pan-culturally phenomenon. Family well-being is a key ingredient of social fabric across the world, and should be acknowledged by psychology and well-being researchers and by progressive movements too.
dc.affiliationFaculty of Psychology in Wroclaw
dc.contributor.authorKrys, Kuba
dc.contributor.authorYeung, June Chun
dc.contributor.authorHaas, Brian W.
dc.contributor.authorvan Osch, Yvette
dc.contributor.authorKosiarczyk, Aleksandra
dc.contributor.authorKocimska-Zych, Agata
dc.contributor.authorTorres, Claudio
dc.contributor.authorSelim, Heyla A.
dc.contributor.authorZelenski, John M.
dc.contributor.authorBond, Michael Harris
dc.contributor.authorPark, Joonha
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.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.authorOkvitawanli, Ayu
dc.contributor.authorNadi, Azar
dc.contributor.authorNader, Martin
dc.contributor.authorMustaffa, Nur Fariza
dc.contributor.authorMurdock, Elke
dc.contributor.authorMosca, Oriana
dc.contributor.authorMohorić, Tamara
dc.contributor.authorBarrientos Marroquin, 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 Kráčmarová, Lucie
dc.contributor.authorKascakova, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorIşık, İdil
dc.contributor.authorIgou, Eric R.
dc.contributor.authorIgbokwe, David O.
dc.contributor.authorHanke-Boer,
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.authorArevalo, Douglas
dc.contributor.authorAppoh, Lily
dc.contributor.authorAkotia, Charity
dc.contributor.authorAdamovic, Mladen
dc.contributor.authorUchida, Yukiko
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-03T08:12:54Z
dc.date.available2024-12-03T08:12:54Z
dc.date.issued2023-05
dc.description.abstract<jats:p> People care about their own well-being and about the well-being of their families. It is currently, however, unknown how much people tend to value their own versus their family’s well-being. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size ( N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries ( N = 49). We found that the strength of the idealization of family over personal happiness preference was small (average Cohen’s ds = .20, range −.02 to.48), but present in 98% of the studied countries, with statistical significance in 73% to 75%, and variance across countries &lt;2%. We also found that the size of this effect did vary somewhat across cultural contexts. In Latin American cultures highest on relational mobility, the idealization of family over personal happiness was very small (average Cohen’s ds for Latin America = .15 and .18), while in Confucian Asia cultures lowest on relational mobility, this effect was closer to medium ( ds &gt; .40 and .30). Importantly, we did not find strong support for traditional theories in cross-cultural psychology that associate collectivism with greater prioritization of the family versus the individual; country-level individualism–collectivism was not associated with variation in the idealization of family versus individual happiness. Our findings indicate that no matter how much various populists abuse the argument of “protecting family life” to disrupt emancipation, family happiness seems to be a pan-culturally phenomenon. Family well-being is a key ingredient of social fabric across the world, and should be acknowledged by psychology and well-being researchers and by progressive movements too. </jats:p>
dc.description.issue3
dc.description.physical323-339
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume54
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/00220221221134711
dc.identifier.eissn1552-5422
dc.identifier.issn0022-0221
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1131
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220221221134711
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationpsychologia
dc.rightsClosedAccess
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dc.subject.enfamily
dc.subject.enhappiness
dc.subject.enwell-being
dc.subject.eninterdependent happiness
dc.subject.enlife satisfaction
dc.subject.enculture
dc.subject.enrelational mobility
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dc.titleFamily First: Evidence of Consistency and Variation in the Value of Family Versus Personal Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures
dc.title.journalJournal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
dc.typeJournalArticle
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