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

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Krys, Kuba
Haas, Brian W.
Igou, Eric Raymond
Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra
Kocimska‑Bortnowska, Agata
Kwiatkowska, Anna
Miu‑Chi Lun, Vivian
Maricchiolo, Fridanna
Park, Joonha
Poláčková Šolcová, Iva
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2023-02
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Journal of Happiness Studies
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24
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607–627
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1389-4978
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
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2022-12-26
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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.
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Culture
Happiness
Well-being
Interdependent happiness
Life satisfaction
Cultural sensitivity
Selfhoods
Self-construals
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