Introduction to a culturally sensitive measure of well-being: combining life satisfaction and interdependent happiness across 49 different cultures /

Kuba Krys; Brian W Haas; Eric Raymond Igou; Aleksandra Kosiarczyk; Agata Kocimska-Bortnowska; Anna Kwiatkowska; Vivian Miu-Chi Lun; Fridanna Maricchiolo; Joonha Park; Iva Poláčková Šolcová; David Sirlopú; Yukiko Uchida; Christin-Melanie Vauclair; Vivian L Vignoles; John M Zelenski; Mladen Adamovic; Charity S Akotia; Isabelle Albert; Lily Appoh; D. M. Arévalo Mira; Arno Baltin; Patrick Denoux; Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa; Carla Sofia Esteves; Vladimer Gamsakhurdia; Márta Fülöp; Ragna B Garðarsdóttir; Alin Gavreliuc; Diana Boer; David O Igbokwe; İdil Işık; Natalia Kascakova; Lucie Klůzová Kráčmarová; Natasza Kosakowska-Berezecka; Olga Kostoula; Nicole Kronberger; J. Hannah Lee; Xinhui Liu; Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha; Arina Malyonova; Pablo Eduardo Barrientos; Tamara Mohorić; Oriana Mosca; Elke Murdock; Nur Fariza Mustaffa; Martin Nader; Azar Nadi; Ayu Okvitawanli; Yvette van Osch; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Zoran Pavlović; Muhammad Rizwan; Vladyslav Romashov; Espen Røysamb; Rūta Sargautytė; Beate Schwarz; Heyla A Selim; Ursula Serdarevich; Maria Stogianni; Chien-Ru Sun; Julien Teyssier; Wijnand A. P van Tilburg; Claudio Torres; Cai Xing; Michael Harris Bond

doi:10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1

Title	Introduction to a culturally sensitive measure of well-being: combining life satisfaction and interdependent happiness across 49 different cultures /
Authors	Krys, Kuba ; Haas, Brian W ; Igou, Eric Raymond ; Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra ; Kocimska-Bortnowska, Agata ; Kwiatkowska, Anna ; Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi ; Maricchiolo, Fridanna ; Park, Joonha ; Šolcová, Iva Poláčková ; Sirlopú, David ; Uchida, Yukiko ; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie ; Vignoles, Vivian L ; Zelenski, John M ; Adamovic, Mladen ; Akotia, Charity S ; Albert, Isabelle ; Appoh, Lily ; Mira, D. M. Arévalo ; Baltin, Arno ; Denoux, Patrick ; Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra ; Esteves, Carla Sofia ; Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer ; Fülöp, Márta ; Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B ; Gavreliuc, Alin ; Boer, Diana ; Igbokwe, David O ; Işık, İdil ; Kascakova, Natalia ; Klůzová Kráčmarová, Lucie ; Kosakowska-Berezecka, Natasza ; Kostoula, Olga ; Kronberger, Nicole ; Lee, J. Hannah ; Liu, Xinhui ; Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena ; Malyonova, Arina ; Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo ; Mohorić, Tamara ; Mosca, Oriana ; Murdock, Elke ; Mustaffa, Nur Fariza ; Nader, Martin ; Nadi, Azar ; Okvitawanli, Ayu ; van Osch, Yvette ; Pavlopoulos, Vassilis ; Pavlović, Zoran ; Rizwan, Muhammad ; Romashov, Vladyslav ; Røysamb, Espen ; Sargautytė, Rūta ; Schwarz, Beate ; Selim, Heyla A ; Serdarevich, Ursula ; Stogianni, Maria ; Sun, Chien-Ru ; Teyssier, Julien ; van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P ; Torres, Claudio ; Xing, Cai ; Bond, Michael Harris
DOI	10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1
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Is Part of	Journal of happiness studies.. Dordrecht : Springer Science and Business Media B.V.. 2023, vol. 24, iss. 2, p. 607-627.. ISSN 1389-4978. eISSN 1573-7780
Keywords [eng]	cultural sensitivity ; culture ; happiness ; interdependent happiness ; life satisfaction ; self-construals ; selfhoods ; well-being
Abstract [eng]	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.
Published	Dordrecht : Springer Science and Business Media B.V
Type	Journal article
Language	English
Publication date	2023
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