Family First: Evidence of Consistency and Variation in the Value of Family Versus Personal Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures

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dc.WoS.categoriesPsychology, Socialen_US
dc.authorid0000-0002-6709-9717en_US
dc.contributor.authorKrys, Kuba
dc.contributor.authorIşık, İdil
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T07:18:50Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T07:18:50Z
dc.date.issued2023-05
dc.description.abstractPeople care about their own well-being and about the well-being of their families. It is currently, however, unknown how much people tend to value their own versus their family's well-being. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size (N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries (N = 49). We found that the strength of the idealization of family over personal happiness preference was small (average Cohen's ds = .20, range -.02 to.48), but present in 98% of the studied countries, with statistical significance in 73% to 75%, and variance across countries <2%. We also found that the size of this effect did vary somewhat across cultural contexts. In Latin American cultures highest on relational mobility, the idealization of family over personal happiness was very small (average Cohen's ds for Latin America = .15 and .18), while in Confucian Asia cultures lowest on relational mobility, this effect was closer to medium (ds > .40 and .30). Importantly, we did not find strong support for traditional theories in cross-cultural psychology that associate collectivism with greater prioritization of the family versus the individual; country-level individualism-collectivism was not associated with variation in the idealization of family versus individual happiness. Our findings indicate that no matter how much various populists abuse the argument of "protecting family life" to disrupt emancipation, family happiness seems to be a pan-culturally phenomenon. Family well-being is a key ingredient of social fabric across the world, and should be acknowledged by psychology and well-being researchers and by progressive movements too.en_US
dc.fullTextLevelFull Texten_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/00220221221134711en_US
dc.identifier.issn1552-5422
dc.identifier.issn0022-0221
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85149537802en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/5212
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/00220221221134711
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000955058400001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ2en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.issue3en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.nationalInternationalen_US
dc.numberofauthors50+en_US
dc.pages323-339en_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publications Ltden_US
dc.relation.ispartofJOURNAL OF CROSS-CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGYen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectfamilyen_US
dc.subjecthappinessen_US
dc.subjectwell-beingen_US
dc.subjectinterdependent happinessen_US
dc.subjectlife satisfactionen_US
dc.subjectcultureen_US
dc.subjectrelational mobilityen_US
dc.titleFamily First: Evidence of Consistency and Variation in the Value of Family Versus Personal Happiness Across 49 Different Culturesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.volume54en_US

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