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Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries

Journal of happiness studies, 2021-06, Vol.22 (5), p.2197-2214 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries
Author: Krys, Kuba ; Park, Joonha ; Kocimska-Zych, Agata ; Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra ; Selim, Heyla A. ; Wojtczuk-Turek, Agnieszka ; Haas, Brian W. ; Uchida, Yukiko ; Torres, Claudio ; Capaldi, Colin A. ; Bond, Michael Harris ; Zelenski, John M. ; Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi ; Maricchiolo, Fridanna ; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie ; Poláčková Šolcová, Iva ; Sirlopú, David ; Xing, Cai ; Vignoles, Vivian L. ; van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P. ; Teyssier, Julien ; Sun, Chien-Ru ; Stoyanova, Stanislava ; Serdarevich, Ursula ; Schwarz, Beate ; Sargautyte, Ruta ; Røysamb, Espen ; Romashov, Vladyslav ; Rizwan, Muhammad ; Pavlović, Zoran ; Pavlopoulos, Vassilis ; van Osch, Yvette ; Okvitawanli, Ayu ; Nadi, Azar ; Nader, Martin ; Nur Fariza, Mustaffa ; Mosca, Oriana ; Mohorić, Tamara ; Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo ; Malyonova, Arina ; Liu, Xinhui ; Lee, J. Hannah ; Kwiatkowska, Anna ; Kronberger, Nicole ; Klůzová Kračmárová, Lucie ; Kascakova, Natalia ; Işık, İdil ; Igou, Eric R. ; Igbokwe, David O. ; Hanke-Boer, Diana ; Gavreliuc, Alin ; Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B. ; Fülöp, Márta ; Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer ; Esteves, Carla Sofia ; Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra ; Denoux, Patrick ; Charkviani, Salome ; Baltin, Arno ; Mira, Arévalo D. M. ; Appoh, Lily ; Albert, Isabelle ; Akotia, Charity S. ; Adamovic, Mladen
Subjects: Collectivism ; Economics ; Happiness ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; Individualism ; Life satisfaction ; Personality and Social Psychology ; Philosophy ; Policy making ; Positive Psychology ; Psychology ; Quality of Life Research ; Research Paper ; Social Sciences
Is Part Of: Journal of happiness studies, 2021-06, Vol.22 (5), p.2197-2214
Description: 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.
Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
Language: English;Norwegian
Identifier: ISSN: 1389-4978
EISSN: 1573-7780
DOI: 10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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NORA Norwegian Open Research Archives

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