TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross-cultural validation of fear of happiness scale across 14 national groups
AU - JOSHANLOO, Mohsen
AU - LEPSHOKOVA, Zarina Kh.
AU - PANYUSHEVA, Tatiana
AU - NATALIA, Amerkhanova
AU - POON, Wai-Ching
AU - YEUNG, Victoria Wai-lan
AU - SUNDARAM, Suresh
AU - ACHOUI, Mustapha
AU - ASANO, Ryosuke
AU - IGARASHI, Tasuku
AU - TSUKAMOTO, Saori
AU - RIZWAN, Muhammad
AU - KHILJI, Imran Ahmed
AU - FERREIRA, Maria Cristina
AU - PANG, Joyce S.
AU - HO, Lok Sang
AU - HAN, Gyuseog
AU - BAE, Jaechang
AU - JIANG, Ding-Yu
N1 - The contribution of authors other than the corresponding author was equal, and thus the second to last names are ordered alphabetically.
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.
PY - 2014/2/1
Y1 - 2014/2/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - fear of happiness
KW - subjective well-being
KW - happiness
KW - emotion
KW - cross-cultural
KW - religion
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/393
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84891508817&doi=10.1177%2f0022022113505357&partnerID=40&md5=ec07b7b8978c53c0d0fb79569cf2cddb
U2 - 10.1177/0022022113505357
DO - 10.1177/0022022113505357
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 0022-0221
VL - 45
SP - 246
EP - 264
JO - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
JF - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology
IS - 2
ER -