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Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures
- Source :
- Journal of Happiness Studies. Springer, Journal of happiness studies, Dordrecht : Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2023, vol. 24, iss. 2, p. 607-627, Journal of Happiness Studies
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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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.
- Subjects :
- cultural sensitivity
culture
happiness
interdependent happiness
life satisfaction
self-construals
selfhoods
well-being
Selfhoods
Culture
Happiness
Interdependent happiness
Well-being
Cultural sensitivity
Life satisfaction
Culture · Happiness, Well-being, Interdependent happiness, Life satisfaction, Cultural sensitivity, Selfhoods, Self-construals
Ciências Sociais::Outras Ciências Sociais [Domínio/Área Científica]
Ciências Sociais::Psicologia [Domínio/Área Científica]
Self-construals
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13894978 and 15737780
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Happiness Studies. Springer, Journal of happiness studies, Dordrecht : Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2023, vol. 24, iss. 2, p. 607-627, Journal of Happiness Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b28eb4e3d10b87e3ad6f4e9967089fa9