Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well‑Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Diferent Cultures

dc.contributor.authorAkotia, C.S.
dc.contributor.authorKrys, K.
dc.contributor.authorHaas, B.W.
dc.contributor.authorIgou, E.R.
dc.contributor.authorKosiarczyk, A.
dc.contributor.authorKocimska‑Bortnowska, A.
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-13T18:16:29Z
dc.date.available2023-02-13T18:16:29Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionResearch Articleen_US
dc.description.abstractHow 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.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/38644
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Happiness Studiesen_US
dc.subjectCultureen_US
dc.subjectHappinessen_US
dc.subjectWell-beingen_US
dc.subjectInterdependent happinessen_US
dc.subjectLife satisfactionen_US
dc.titleIntroduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well‑Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Diferent Culturesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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