Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures
Krys,Kuba Haas,Brian W. Igou,Eric Raymond Kosiarczyk,Aleksandra Kocimska-Bortnowska,Agata Kwiatkowska,Anna Lun,Vivian Miu-Chi Fridanna,MARICCHIOLO Park,Joonha Šolcová,Iva Poláčková
Krys,Kuba
Haas,Brian W.
Igou,Eric Raymond
Kosiarczyk,Aleksandra
Kocimska-Bortnowska,Agata
Kwiatkowska,Anna
Lun,Vivian Miu-Chi
Fridanna,MARICCHIOLO
Park,Joonha
Šolcová,Iva Poláčková
Abstract
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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Funding Information: This work was supported by the Norway Grants 2014–2021 operated by the National Science Centre (Poland) under Project Contract No 2019/34/H/ HS6/00597 (GRIEG); National Science Centre (Poland) grant UMO-2016/23/D/HS6/02946; the Hungarian OTKA-K 135963, the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq under Grant 301298/2018-1; the Czech Science Foundation CSF under Grant 20-08583S, by the NPO, Systemic Risk Institute, LX22NPO510, EU - Next Generation EU; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 71873133; and the Department of Educational Studies, University of Roma Tre under biannual Grant DSF 2017–2018. Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s).
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2022-12-26
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Cultural sensitivity, Culture, Happiness, Interdependent happiness, Life satisfaction, Self-construals, Selfhoods, Well-being
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Krys, K, Haas, B W, Igou, E R, Kosiarczyk, A, Kocimska-Bortnowska, A, Kwiatkowska, A, Lun, V M-C, Fridanna, MARICCHIOLO, Park, J, Šolcová, I P, Sirlopú, D, Uchida, Y, Vauclair, C-M, Vignoles, V L, Zelenski, J M, Adamovic, M, Akotia, C S, Albert, I, Appoh, L, Mira, D M A, Baltin, A, Denoux, P, Domínguez-Espinosa, A, Esteves, C S, Gamsakhurdia, V, Fülöp, M, Garðarsdóttir, R B, Gavreliuc, A, Boer, D, Igbokwe, D O, Işık, İ, Kascakova, N, Kráčmarová, L K, Kosakowska-Berezecka, N, Kostoula, O, Kronberger, N, Lee, J H, Liu, X, Łużniak-Piecha, M, Маленова, А, Barrientos, P E, Mohorić, T, Mosca, O, Murdock, E, Mustaffa, N F, Nader, M, Nadi, A, Okvitawanli, A, Osch, Y V, Pavlopoulos, V, Pavlović, Z, Rizwan, M, Romashov, V, Røysamb, E, Sargautyte, R, Schwarz, B, Selim, H A, Serdarevich, U, Stogianni, M, Sun, C-R, Teyssier, J, van Tilburg, W A P, Torres, C, Xing, C & Bond, M H 2022, 'Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures', Journal of Happiness Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
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