Self-construals predict personal life satisfaction with different strengths across societal contexts differing in national wealth and religious heritage
Sánchez-Rodríguez,Ángel Vignoles,Vivian L Bond,Michael Harris Adamovic,Mladen Akotia,Charity S. Albert,Isabelle Appoh,Lily Baltin,Arno Barrientos,Pablo Eduardo Denoux,Patrick
Sánchez-Rodríguez,Ángel
Vignoles,Vivian L
Bond,Michael Harris
Adamovic,Mladen
Akotia,Charity S.
Albert,Isabelle
Appoh,Lily
Baltin,Arno
Barrientos,Pablo Eduardo
Denoux,Patrick
Abstract
We explore to what extent previously observed pan-cultural association between dimensions of self-construal and personal life satisfaction (PLS) may be moderated by three national-contextual variables: national wealth, economic inequality, and religious heritage. The results showed that Self-reliance (vs. dependence on others) predicted PLS positively in poorer countries but negatively in richer countries. Connectedness to others (vs. self-containment) predicted PLS more strongly in Protestant-heritage countries. Self-expression (vs. harmony) predicted PLS more weakly (and non-significantly) in Muslim-heritage countries. In contrast, previously reported associations of self-direction (vs. reception-to-influence), consistency (vs. variability), and decontextualized (vs. contextualized) self-understanding with personal life satisfaction were not significantly moderated by these aspects of societal context. These results show the importance of considering the impact of national religious and economic context.
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Funding Information: The work was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [P17806]; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [17F17806]; Polish National Science Centre under Grant [2020/38/E/HS6/00357]; Department of Educational Studies, University of Roma Tre under biannual [DSF 2017-2018]; the Hungarian OTKA [K-135963]; Czech Science Foundation [20-08583S]; the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia [YS 17–43]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [71873133]; Brazilian National Council for Research—CNPq [PQ301298/2018-1] Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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2023-04-27
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Economic inequality, Multicomponentself-construal, National wealth, Personal life satisfaction, Religious heritage, SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
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Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á, Vignoles, V L, Bond, M H, Adamovic, M, Akotia, C S, Albert, I, Appoh, L, Baltin, A, Barrientos, P E, Denoux, P, Domínguez-Espinosa, A, Esteves, C S, Fülöp, M, Gamsakhurdia, V, Gardarsdottir, R B, Gavreliuc, A, Hanke-Boer, D, Haas, B W, Igbokwe, D O, Isik, I, Kaščáková, N, Kračmárová, L K, Kocimska-Zych, A, Kosiarczyk, A, Kostoula, O, Kronberger, N, Krys, K, Kwiatkowska, A, Lee, J H, Liu, X, Łużniak-Piecha, M, Маленова, А, Fridanna, MARICCHIOLO, Mira, D M A, Mohoric, T, Mosca, O, Murdock, E, Mustaffa, N F, Lun, V, Nader, M, Nadi, A, Okvitawanli, A, Osch, Y V, Park, J, Pavlopoulos, V, Pavlović, Z, Šolcová, I P, Igou, E R, Rizwan, M, Romashov, V, Røysamb, E, Sargautyte, R, Schwarz, B, Selim, H A, Serdarevich, U, Sirlopu, D, Stogianni, M, Stoyanova, S, Sun, C-R, Teyssier, J, van Tilburg, W A P, Torres, C, Uchida, Y, Vauclair, C-M, Xing, C & Zelenski, J M 2023, 'Self-construals predict personal life satisfaction with different strengths across societal contexts differing in national wealth and religious heritage', Self and Identity, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 689-712. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2023.2202413