Autor(es):
Kuba, K. ; Haas, B. W. ; Igou, E. R. ; Kosiarczyk, A. ; Kocimska-Bortnowska, A. ; Kwiatkowska, A. ; Lun, V. M.-C. ; Maricchiolo, F. ; Park, J. ; Šolcová, I. P. ; Sirlopú, D. ; Uchida, Y. ; Vauclair, C.- M. ; Vignoles, V. L. ; Zelenski, J. M. ; Adamovic, M. ; Akotia, C. S. ; Albert, I. ; Esteves, C. ; Bond, M. H.
Data: 2022
Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/28742
Origem: Repositório ISCTE
Assunto(s): Culture; Happiness; Well-being; Interdependent happiness; Life satisfaction; Cultural sensitivity; Selfhoods; Self-construals
Descrição
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.
