Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well‑Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Diferent Cultures
dc.contributor.author | Akotia, C.S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Krys, K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Haas, B.W. | |
dc.contributor.author | Igou, E.R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kosiarczyk, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kocimska‑Bortnowska, A. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-13T18:16:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-02-13T18:16:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.description | Research Article | en_US |
dc.description.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 inter-dependent 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. | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/38644 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Journal of Happiness Studies | en_US |
dc.subject | Culture | en_US |
dc.subject | Happiness | en_US |
dc.subject | Well-being | en_US |
dc.subject | Interdependent happiness | en_US |
dc.subject | Life satisfaction | en_US |
dc.title | Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well‑Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Diferent Cultures | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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