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Measurement invariance of the meaning in life questionnaire across 17 countries
Schutte, Lusilda; Brdar, Ingrid; Wissing, Marié P.; Tončić, Marko; Araujo, Ulisses; Carlquist, Erik; Castro Solano, Alejandro; Freire, TeresaThe Meaning in Life Questionnaire assesses presence of and search for meaning in life. Although the questionnaire has shown promising psychometric properties in samples from diferent countries, the scale’s measurement invariance across a large number of nations has yet to be assessed. This study is aimed at addressing this gap, providing insight into how meaning in life is constructed and experienced across cou...
Lay definitions of happiness across nations: The Primacy of inner harmony and r...
Delle Fave, Antonella; Brdar, Ingrid; Wissing, Marie P.; Araujo, Ulisses; Castro Solano, Alejandro; Freire, Teresa; Del Rocio Hernandez-Pozo, MariaIn well-being research the term happiness is often used as synonymous with life satisfaction. However, little is known about lay people's understanding of happiness. Building on the available literature, this study explored lay definitions of happiness across nations and cultural dimensions, analyzing their components and relationship with participants' demographic features. Participants were 2799 adults (age r...
The eudaimonic and hedonic components of happiness: qualitative and quantitativ...
Delle Fave, Antonella; Brdar, Ingrid; Freire, Teresa; Vella-Brodrick, Dianne; Wissing, Marie P.This paper illustrates a new project developed by a cross-country team of researchers, with the aim of studying the hedonic and eudaimonic components of happiness through a mixed method approach combining both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Data were collected from 666 participants in Australia, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and South Africa. A major aim of the study was to examine definitio...