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Personal life satisfaction as a measure of societal happiness is an individualistic presumption: evidence from fifty countries
Journal Title
Journal of Happiness Studies
Year (definitive publication)
2021
Language
English
Country
Netherlands
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Abstract
Numerous studies document that societal happiness is correlated with individualism, but the nature of this phenomenon remains understudied. In the current paper, we address this gap and test the reasoning that individualism correlates with societal happiness because the most common measure of societal happiness (i.e., country-level aggregates of personal life satisfaction) is individualism-themed. With the data collected from 13,009 participants across fifty countries, we compare associations of four types of happiness (out of which three are more collectivism-themed than personal life satisfaction) with two different measures of individualism. We replicated previous findings by demonstrating that societal happiness measured as country-level aggregate of personal life satisfaction is correlated with individualism. Importantly though, we also found that the country-level aggregates of the collectivism-themed measures of happiness do not tend to be significantly correlated with individualism. Implications for happiness studies and for policy makers are signaled.
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Keywords
Family happiness,Interdependent happiness,Life satisfaction,Self-construals,Individualism,Collectivism,Well-being,Culture
Fields of Science and Technology Classification
- Psychology - Social Sciences
- Other Social Sciences - Social Sciences
Funding Records
| Funding Reference | Funding Entity |
|---|---|
| 71873133 | National Natural Science Foundation of China |
| YS 17–43 | Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation |
| 20-08583S | Grantová Agentura České Republiky |
| 2016/23/D/HS6/02946 | Polish National Science Centre |
| P17806 | Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) |
| UIDB/03125/2020 | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| K-111 789 | Hungarian Scientific Research Fund |
| DSF 2017-2018 | Università degli Studi Roma Tre |
| PQ301298/2018-1 | CNPq |
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