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

0566147 - PSÚ 2023 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Krys, K. - Haas, B.W. - Igou, E.R. - Kosiarczyk, A. - Kocimska-Bortnowska, A. - Kwiatkowska, A. - Lun, V.M.-C. - Maricchiolo, F. - Park, J. - Poláčková Šolcová, Iva - Sirlopú, D. - Uchida, Y. - Vauclair, C.-M. - Vignoles, V.L. - Zelenski, J.M. - Adamovic, M. - Akotia, C.S. - Albert, I. - Appoh, L. - Mira, A.D.M. - Baltin, A. - Denoux, P. - Domínguez-Espinosa, A. - Esteves, C.S. - Gamsakhurdia, V. - Klůzová Kráčmarová, Lucie … Total 65 authors
Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures.
Journal of Happiness Studies. Roč. 24, č. 2 (2023), s. 607-627. ISSN 1389-4978. E-ISSN 1573-7780
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-08583S; GA MŠMT(CZ) LX22NPO5101
Institutional support: RVO:68081740
Keywords : culture * happiness * well-being * interdependent happiness * life satisfaction * cultural sensitivity * selfhoods * self-construals
OECD category: Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Impact factor: 4.6, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1

How can one conclude that well-being is higher in country A than country B, when wellbeing 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 diferent 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.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0337581