TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being
T2 - Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures
AU - Krys, Kuba
AU - Haas, Brian W.
AU - Igou, Eric Raymond
AU - Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra
AU - Kocimska-Bortnowska, Agata
AU - Kwiatkowska, Anna
AU - Lun, Vivian Miu Chi
AU - Maricchiolo, Fridanna
AU - Park, Joonha
AU - Šolcová, Iva Poláčková
AU - Sirlopú, David
AU - Uchida, Yukiko
AU - Vauclair, Christin Melanie
AU - Vignoles, Vivian L.
AU - Zelenski, John M.
AU - Adamovic, Mladen
AU - Akotia, Charity S.
AU - Albert, Isabelle
AU - Appoh, Lily
AU - Mira, D. M.Arévalo
AU - Baltin, Arno
AU - Denoux, Patrick
AU - Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra
AU - Esteves, Carla Sofia
AU - Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer
AU - Fülöp, Márta
AU - Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.
AU - Gavreliuc, Alin
AU - Boer, Diana
AU - Igbokwe, David O.
AU - Işık, İdil
AU - Kascakova, Natalia
AU - Klůzová Kráčmarová, Lucie
AU - Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza
AU - Kostoula, Olga
AU - Kronberger, Nicole
AU - Lee, J. Hannah
AU - Liu, Xinhui
AU - Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena
AU - Malyonova, Arina
AU - Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo
AU - Mohorić, Tamara
AU - Mosca, Oriana
AU - Murdock, Elke
AU - Mustaffa, Nur Fariza
AU - Nader, Martin
AU - Nadi, Azar
AU - Okvitawanli, Ayu
AU - van Osch, Yvette
AU - Pavlopoulos, Vassilis
AU - Pavlović, Zoran
AU - Rizwan, Muhammad
AU - Romashov, Vladyslav
AU - Røysamb, Espen
AU - Sargautyte, Ruta
AU - Schwarz, Beate
AU - Selim, Heyla A.
AU - Serdarevich, Ursula
AU - Stogianni, Maria
AU - Sun, Chien Ru
AU - Teyssier, Julien
AU - van Tilburg, Wijnand A.P.
AU - Torres, Claudio
AU - Xing, Cai
AU - Bond, Michael Harris
N1 - 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).
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Cultural sensitivity
KW - Culture
KW - Happiness
KW - Interdependent happiness
KW - Life satisfaction
KW - Self-construals
KW - Selfhoods
KW - Well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85144906316&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
DO - 10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85144906316
SN - 1389-4978
VL - 24
SP - 607
EP - 627
JO - Journal of Happiness Studies
JF - Journal of Happiness Studies
IS - 2
ER -