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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...
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 ...
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...