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Happiness maximization is a WEIRD way of living
Krys, Kuba; Kostoula, Olga; Tilburg, Wijnand A. P. van; Mosca, Oriana; Lee, J. Hannah; Maricchiolo, Fridanna; Kosiarczyk, AleksandraPsychological science tends to treat subjective well-being and happiness synonymously. We start from the assumption that subjective well-being is more than being happy to ask the fundamental question: What is the ideal level of happiness? From a cross-cultural perspective, we propose that the idealization of attaining maximum levels of happiness may be especially characteristic of Western, educated, industrial,...
The role of cultural heterogeneity in strengthening the link between family rel...
Li, Liman Man Wai; Lun, Vivian Miu Chi; Bond, Michael Harris; Yeung, June Chun; Igou, Eric Raymond; Haas, Brian W.; Stoyanova, StanislavaWe 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 heteroge...
Introduction to a culturally sensitive measure of well-being: combining life sa...
Krys, Kuba; Haas, Brian W.; Igou, Eric Raymond; Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra; Kocimska-Bortnowska, Agata; Kwiatkowska, Anna; Lun, Vivian Miu ChiHow 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, collec...
Family first: evidence of consistency and variation in the value of family vers...
Krys, Kuba; Chun Yeung, June; Haas, Brian W.; van Osch, Yvette; Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra; Kocimska-Zych, Agata; Torres, Claudio; Selim, Heyla A.People care about their own well-being and about the well-being of their families. It is currently, however, unknown how much people tend to value their own versus their family’s well-being. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size (N = 12,819) and a greater number of ...
Need for approval from others and face concerns as predictors of interpersonal ...
Lun, Vivian Miu‐Chi; Smith, Peter; Grigoryan, Lusine; Torres, Claudio; Papastylianou, Antonia; Lopukhova, Olga G.; Sunar, Diane; Easterbrook, Matthew J.The extent to which culture moderates the effects of need for approval from others on a person's handling of interpersonal conflict was investigated. Students from 24 nations rated how they handled a recent interpersonal conflict, using measures derived from face-negotiation theory. Samples varied in the extent to which they were perceived as characterised by the cultural logics of dignity, honour, or face. It ...
Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures
Tamir, Maya; Ito, Atsuki; Miyamoto, Yuri; Chentsova-Dutton, Yulia; Choi, Jeong Ha; Cieciuch, Jan; Riediger, Michaela; Rauers, Antje; Padun, MariaEmotion regulation is important for psychological health and can be achieved by implementing various strategies. How one regulates emotions is critical for maximizing psychological health. Few studies, however, tested the psychological correlates of different emotion regulation strategies across multiple cultures. In a preregistered cross-cultural study (N = 3,960, 19 countries), conducted during the COVID-19 p...
Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfac...
Krys, Kuba; Yeung, June Chun; Capaldi, Colin A.; Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi; Torres, Claudio; Tilburg, Wijnand A. P. van; Bond, Michael HarrisIn this paper, we introduce the concept of 'societal emotional environment': the emotional climate of a society (operationalized as the degree to which positive and negative emotions are expressed in a society). Using data collected from 12,888 participants across 49 countries, we show how societal emotional environments vary across countries and cultural clusters, and we consider the potential importance of th...
Percepção de Suporte Organizacional na Segurança Pública: Uma Revisão Integrativa
Mazzoleni, Martina; Gómez, Victoria Ayelén; Rodrigues, Carlos Manoel Lopes; Nunes, Clara; Santana Lima, Filipe; Torres, ClaudioFoi realizada uma revisão integrativa da literatura nacional e internacional para identificar como a percepção de suporte organizacional (PSO) foi investigada nos estudos conduzidos na área da segurança pública. Buscou-se apresentar um panorama do conhecimento científico produzido sobre o tema entre policiais e bombeiros nas últimas duas décadas, demonstrando o desenvolvimento das pesquisas ao longo do tempo e ...
Risk Perception and Security Attitudes: the Role of Human Values on Brazilian P...
Torres, Claudio; Mattos, Marcio; Gomes Nascimento, Thiago; Souza, Wania Cristina; da Silva, Lucas L.Studies on crime and parking facilities also appear to have a strong focus on car theft with small emphasis on psychological and cognitive variables to investigate potential crimes in this environment. Furthermore, there is limited literature on such crimes in South America, particularly in Brazil. This study has the objective of ofering an instrument to assess risk perception in public and private parking lots...
Why stay with the police? How meaningfulness in life moderates the mediated eff...
Torres, Claudio; Glazer, Sharon; Macedo, Francisco Guilherme L.; Nascimento, Thiago G.Brazilian police officers’ increasing levels of work anxiety and intention to leave the job are consistent with other police forces around the world. Among the important variables that appear to be antecedents of these unwanted organizational outcomes are increasing role stressors associated with police work. We conjecture that how police officers appraise stressors would affect whether adverse outcomes prevail...