Cross-cultural validation of fear of happiness scale across 14 national groups

Mohsen JOSHANLOO; Zarina Kh. LEPSHOKOVA; Tatiana PANYUSHEVA; Amerkhanova NATALIA; Wai-Ching POON; Victoria Wai-lan YEUNG; Suresh SUNDARAM; Mustapha ACHOUI; Ryosuke ASANO; Tasuku IGARASHI; Saori TSUKAMOTO; Muhammad RIZWAN; Imran Ahmed KHILJI; Maria Cristina FERREIRA; Joyce S. PANG; Lok Sang HO; Gyuseog  HAN; Jaechang  BAE; Ding-Yu  JIANG

doi:10.1177/0022022113505357

Cross-cultural validation of fear of happiness scale across 14 national groups

Mohsen JOSHANLOO, Zarina Kh. LEPSHOKOVA, Tatiana PANYUSHEVA, Amerkhanova NATALIA, Wai-Ching POON, Victoria Wai-lan YEUNG, Suresh SUNDARAM, Mustapha ACHOUI, Ryosuke ASANO, Tasuku IGARASHI, Saori TSUKAMOTO, Muhammad RIZWAN, Imran Ahmed KHILJI, Maria Cristina FERREIRA, Joyce S. PANG, Lok Sang HO, Gyuseog HAN, Jaechang BAE, Ding-Yu JIANG

Lingnan University

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Abstract

A survey of the cultural notions related to happiness and the existing empirical evidence indicate that some individuals endorse the belief that happiness, particularly an immoderate degree of it, should be avoided. These beliefs mainly involve the general notion that happiness may lead to bad things happening. Using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel modeling, this study investigates the measurement invariance, cross-level isomorphism, predictive validity, and nomological network of the fear of happiness scale across 14 nations. The results show that this scale has good statistical properties at both individual and cultural levels. The findings also indicate that this scale has the potential to add to the knowledge about how people conceive of, and experience, happiness across cultures.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	246-264
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
Volume	45
Issue number	2
Early online date	3 Oct 2013
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022113505357
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2014

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The contribution of authors other than the corresponding author was equal, and thus the second to last names are ordered alphabetically.

Funding

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Ding-Yu Jiang has used the grant sponsored by National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC (NSC 100-2410-H-194-039-MY2.

Keywords

fear of happiness
subjective well-being
happiness
emotion
cross-cultural
religion

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JOSHANLOO, M., LEPSHOKOVA, Z. K., PANYUSHEVA, T., NATALIA, A., POON, W.-C., YEUNG, V. W., SUNDARAM, S., ACHOUI, M., ASANO, R., IGARASHI, T., TSUKAMOTO, S., RIZWAN, M., KHILJI, I. A., FERREIRA, M. C., PANG, J. S., HO, L. S., HAN, G., BAE, J., & JIANG, D.-Y. (2014). Cross-cultural validation of fear of happiness scale across 14 national groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 45(2), 246-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022113505357

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