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Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being
Título Revista
International Journal of Intercultural Relations
Ano (publicação definitiva)
2025
Língua
Inglês
País
Estados Unidos da América
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Abstract/Resumo
Previous research indicates that the significance of love varies considerably across cultures. In the present study, we introduce an often-overlooked cultural factor – religiosity – to explore its influence on the relationship between being in love and five dimensions of subjective well-being. We conducted two cross-cultural studies with 31,608 participants from 117 samples across 83 societies. Our findings reveal that, in more religious cultures, being in love is a weaker predictor of well-being compared to more secular cultures in four out of six models. These findings indicate that national context influences the relative importance of various emotions and experiences for well-being, underscoring the need to account for cultural context in research on love.
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Palavras-chave
Love,Well-being,Religiosity,Culture
Classificação Fields of Science and Technology
- Psicologia - Ciências Sociais
- Economia e Gestão - Ciências Sociais
- Sociologia - Ciências Sociais
- Outras Ciências Sociais - Ciências Sociais
Registos de financiamentos
| Referência de financiamento | Entidade Financiadora |
|---|---|
| K-111 789 | Hungarian OTKA |
| 301298/2018-1 | Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development |
| LX22NPO5101 | NPO |
| 451-03-66/2024-03/200163 | Ministry of Science, Technological Development, and Innovation of the Republic of Serbia |
| DSF 2017-2018 | University of Roma Department of Educational Studies |
| 2020/38/E/HS6/00357 | Polish National Science Centre |
| ORF-2025-1204 | HSE University Basic Research Program; Ongoing Research Funding Program |
| ES/W00786X/1 | King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
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