The role of cultural heterogeneity in strengthening the link between family relationships and life satisfaction in 50 societies /

Liman Man Wai Li; Vivian Miu-Chi Lun; Michael Harris Bond; June Chun Yeung; Eric Raymond Igou; Brian W Haas; Stanislava Stoyanova; Fridanna Maricchiolo; John M Zelenski; Christin-Melanie Vauclair; Yukiko Uchida; Iva Poláčková Šolcová; David Sirlopú; Joonha Park; Aleksandra Kosiarczyk; Agata Kocimska-Zych; Colin A Capaldi; Mladen Adamovic; Charity S Akotia; Isabelle Albert; Lily Appoh; Douglas Arevalo; 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 Kračmárová; Olga Kostoula; Nicole Kronberger; Anna Kwiatkowska; J. Hannah Lee; Xinhui Liu; Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha; Arina Malyonova; Pablo Eduardo Barrientos Marroquin; 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; Vivian L Vignoles; Cai Xing; Kuba Krys

doi:10.1007/s10902-024-00768-1

Title	The role of cultural heterogeneity in strengthening the link between family relationships and life satisfaction in 50 societies /
Authors	Li, Liman Man Wai ; Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi ; Bond, Michael Harris ; Yeung, June Chun ; Igou, Eric Raymond ; Haas, Brian W ; Stoyanova, Stanislava ; Maricchiolo, Fridanna ; Zelenski, John M ; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie ; Uchida, Yukiko ; Poláčková Šolcová, Iva ; Sirlopú, David ; Park, Joonha ; Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra ; Kocimska-Zych, Agata ; Capaldi, Colin A ; Adamovic, Mladen ; Akotia, Charity S ; Albert, Isabelle ; Appoh, Lily ; Arevalo, Douglas ; 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 Kračmárová, Lucie ; Kostoula, Olga ; Kronberger, Nicole ; Kwiatkowska, Anna ; Lee, J. Hannah ; Liu, Xinhui ; Łużniak-Piecha, Magdalena ; Malyonova, Arina ; Barrientos Marroquin, 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 ; Vignoles, Vivian L ; Xing, Cai ; Krys, Kuba
DOI	10.1007/s10902-024-00768-1
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Is Part of	Journal of happiness studies.. Dordrecht : Springer Science and Business Media B.V.. 2024, vol. 25, iss. 6, art. no. 76, p. [1-25].. ISSN 1389-4978. eISSN 1573-7780
Keywords [eng]	cultural heterogeneity ; family relationships ; life satisfaction ; multi-level analysis ; socio-ecological approach
Abstract [eng]	We argue that the importance of family relationships for individual well-being varies across societies as a function of a society’s degree of cultural heterogeneity. To examine the role of family relationships, we analyzed the responses from 13,009 participants in 50 societies on their life satisfaction across societies varying in their levels of historical and contemporary cultural heterogeneity. Such heterogeneity creates differences in the frequency of interacting with unfamiliar groups, which leads families to become more central to their members’ satisfaction with life. Multi-level analyses showed that historical and contemporary cultural heterogeneity moderated the pattern such that greater historical or contemporary cultural heterogeneity of society promoted a stronger positive relation between family relationship satisfaction and individual life satisfaction. Our results also revealed that the moderating role of historical cultural heterogeneity was more reliable than that of contemporary cultural heterogeneity. These findings demonstrate the importance of societal demography in shaping people’s psychological processes in different historical periods, suggesting a universal, trans-historical cultural process.
Published	Dordrecht : Springer Science and Business Media B.V
Type	Journal article
Language	English
Publication date	2024
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