1. Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations
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Egon Dejonckheere, Joshua J. Rhee, Peter K. Baguma, Oumar Barry, Maja Becker, Michał Bilewicz, Thomas Castelain, Giulio Costantini, Girts Dimdins, Agustín Espinosa, Gillian Finchilescu, Malte Friese, Maria Cecilia Gastardo-Conaco, Angel Gómez, Roberto González, Nobuhiko Goto, Peter Halama, Camilo Hurtado-Parrado, Gabriela M. Jiga-Boy, Johannes A. Karl, Lindsay Novak, Liisi Ausmees, Steve Loughnan, Khairul A. Mastor, Neil McLatchie, Ike E. Onyishi, Muhammad Rizwan, Mark Schaller, Eleonora Serafimovska, Eunkook M. Suh, William B. Swann, Eddie M. W. Tong, Ana Torres, Rhiannon N. Turner, Alexander Vinogradov, Zhechen Wang, Victoria Wai-lan Yeung, Catherine E. Amiot, Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat, Müjde Peker, Paul A. M. Van Lange, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Peter Kuppens, Brock Bastian, Medical and Clinical Psychology, Peker, Müjde, Dejonckheere, E, Rhee, J, Baguma, P, Barry, O, Becker, M, Bilewicz, M, Castelain, T, Costantini, G, Dimdins, G, Espinosa, A, Finchilescu, G, Friese, M, Gastardo-Conaco, M, Gomez, A, Gonzalez, R, Goto, N, Halama, P, Hurtado-Parrado, C, Jiga-Boy, G, Karl, J, Novak, L, Ausmees, L, Loughnan, S, Mastor, K, Mclatchie, N, Onyishi, I, Rizwan, M, Schaller, M, Serafimovska, E, Suh, E, Swann, W, Tong, E, Torres, A, Turner, R, Vinogradov, A, Wang, Z, Yeung, V, Amiot, C, Boonyasiriwat, W, Peker, M, Van Lange, P, Vauclair, C, Kuppens, P, Bastian, B, Social Psychology, IBBA, and A-LAB
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Adult ,SATISFACTION ,Happiness ,Happine ,Major clinical study ,PEOPLE ,Humans ,Peer Influence ,SEEKING HAPPINESS ,ASSOCIATIONS ,Cross-Sectional Studie ,Emotion ,Multidisciplinary ,Science & Technology ,Wellbeing ,human behaviour ,NEGATIVE AFFECT ,Multicenter study ,Ciências Naturais::Outras Ciências Naturais [Domínio/Área Científica] ,Multidisciplinary Sciences ,MODEL ,Clinical indicator ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS ,depression ,Science & Technology - Other Topics ,EXPERIENCE ,VALUING HAPPINESS ,Perception ,MENTAL-HEALTH ,Human - Abstract
Happiness is a valuable experience, and societies want their citizens to be happy. Although this societal commitment seems laudable, overly emphasizing positivity (versus negativity) may create an unattainable emotion norm that ironically compromises individual well-being. In this multi-national study (40 countries; 7443 participants), we investigate how societal pressure to be happy and not sad predicts emotional, cognitive and clinical indicators of well-being around the world, and examine how these relations differ as a function of countries' national happiness levels (collected from the World Happiness Report). Although detrimental well-being associations manifest for an average country, the strength of these relations varies across countries. People's felt societal pressure to be happy and not sad is particularly linked to poor well-being in countries with a higher World Happiness Index. Although the cross-sectional nature of our work prohibits causal conclusions, our findings highlight the correlational link between social emotion valuation and individual well-being, and suggest that high national happiness levels may have downsides for some. WOS:000757537100060 2-s2.0-85124776484 PMID: 35177625 Science Citation Index Expanded Q1 Article Uluslararası işbirliği ile yapılan - EVET Şubat 2022 YÖK - 2021-22 Şubat
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- 2022