Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures
| dc.authorid | 0000-0002-6709-9717 | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Işık, İdil | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-11T09:48:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-06-11T09:48:39Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-02 | |
| dc.department | […] | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | How can one conclude that well-being is higher in country A than country B, when well-being is being measured according to the way people in country A think about well-being? We address this issue by proposing a new culturally sensitive method to comparing societal levels of well-being. We support our reasoning with data on life satisfaction and interdependent happiness focusing on individual and family, collected mostly from students, across forty-nine countries. We demonstrate that the relative idealization of the two types of well-being varies across cultural contexts and are associated with culturally different models of selfhood. Furthermore, we show that rankings of societal well-being based on life satisfaction tend to underestimate the contribution from interdependent happiness. We introduce a new culturally sensitive method for calculating societal well-being, and examine its construct validity by testing for associations with the experience of emotions and with individualism-collectivism. This new culturally sensitive approach represents a slight, yet important improvement in measuring well-being. © 2022, The Author(s). | en_US |
| dc.fullTextLevel | Full Text | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1389-4978 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11411/5363 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1 | |
| dc.identifier.wosquality | Q1 | en_US |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Scopus | en_US |
| dc.issue | 2 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.national | International | en_US |
| dc.numberofauthors | 100+ | en_US |
| dc.pages | 607-627 | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Springer Science and Business Media B.V. | en_US |
| dc.relation.publication | Journal of Happiness Studies | en_US |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
| dc.sponsored.EU | No | en_US |
| dc.sponsored.TUBITAK | No | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cultural sensitivity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Culture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Happiness | en_US |
| dc.subject | Interdependent happiness | en_US |
| dc.subject | Life satisfaction | en_US |
| dc.subject | Self-construals | en_US |
| dc.subject | Selfhoods | en_US |
| dc.subject | Well-being | en_US |
| dc.title | Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.volume | 24 | en_US |
