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

Kuba KRYS; Joonha PARK; Agata KOCIMSKA-ZYCH; Aleksandra KOSIARCZYK; Heyla A. SELIM; Agnieszka WOJTCZUK-TUREK; Brian W. HAAS; Yukiko UCHIDA; Claudio TORRES; Colin A. CAPALDI; Michael Harris BOND; John M. ZELENSKI; Vivian Miu-chi LUN; Fridanna MARICCHIOLO; Christin-melanie VAUCLAIR; Iva POLÁČKOVÁ ŠOLCOVÁ; David SIRLOPÚ; Cai XING; Vivian L. VIGNOLES; Wijnand A. P. VAN TILBURG; Julien TEYSSIER; Chien-ru SUN; Stanislava STOYANOVA; Ursula SERDAREVICH; Beate SCHWARZ; Ruta SARGAUTYTE; Espen RØYSAMB; Vladyslav ROMASHOV; Muhammad RIZWAN; Zoran PAVLOVIĆ; Vassilis PAVLOPOULOS; Yvette VAN OSCH; Ayu OKVITAWANLI; Azar NADI; Martin NADER; Mustaffa NUR FARIZA; Oriana MOSCA; Tamara MOHORIĆ; Pablo Eduardo BARRIENTOS; Arina MALYONOVA; Xinhui LIU; J. Hannah LEE; Anna KWIATKOWSKA; Nicole KRONBERGER; Lucie KLŮZOVÁ KRAČMÁROVÁ; Natalia KASCAKOVA; İdil IŞIK; Eric R. IGOU; David O. IGBOKWE; Diana HANKE-BOER; Alin GAVRELIUC; Ragna B. GARÐARSDÓTTIR; Márta FÜLÖP; Vladimer GAMSAKHURDIA; Carla Sofia ESTEVES; Alejandra DOMINGUEZ-ESPINOSA; Patrick DENOUX; Salome CHARKVIANI; Arno BALTIN; Arévalo D. M. MIRA; Lily APPOH; Isabelle ALBERT; Charity S. AKOTIA; Mladen ADAMOVIC

doi:10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y

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

Kuba KRYS^*
, Joonha PARK
, Agata KOCIMSKA-ZYCH
, Aleksandra KOSIARCZYK
, Heyla A. SELIM
, Agnieszka WOJTCZUK-TUREK
, Brian W. HAAS
, Yukiko UCHIDA
, Claudio TORRES
, Colin A. CAPALDI
, Michael Harris BOND
, John M. ZELENSKI
, Vivian Miu-chi LUN
, Fridanna MARICCHIOLO
, Christin-melanie VAUCLAIR
, Iva POLÁČKOVÁ ŠOLCOVÁ
, David SIRLOPÚ
, Cai XING
, Vivian L. VIGNOLES
, Wijnand A. P. VAN TILBURG

Julien TEYSSIER, Chien-ru SUN, Stanislava STOYANOVA, Ursula SERDAREVICH, Beate SCHWARZ, Ruta SARGAUTYTE, Espen RØYSAMB, Vladyslav ROMASHOV, Muhammad RIZWAN, Zoran PAVLOVIĆ, Vassilis PAVLOPOULOS, Yvette VAN OSCH, Ayu OKVITAWANLI, Azar NADI, Martin NADER, Mustaffa NUR FARIZA, Oriana MOSCA, Tamara MOHORIĆ, Pablo Eduardo BARRIENTOS, Arina MALYONOVA, Xinhui LIU, J. Hannah LEE, Anna KWIATKOWSKA, Nicole KRONBERGER, Lucie KLŮZOVÁ KRAČMÁROVÁ, Natalia KASCAKOVA, İdil IŞIK, Eric R. IGOU, David O. IGBOKWE, Diana HANKE-BOER, Alin GAVRELIUC, Ragna B. GARÐARSDÓTTIR, Márta FÜLÖP, Vladimer GAMSAKHURDIA, Carla Sofia ESTEVES, Alejandra DOMINGUEZ-ESPINOSA, Patrick DENOUX, Salome CHARKVIANI, Arno BALTIN, Arévalo D. M. MIRA, Lily APPOH, Isabelle ALBERT, Charity S. AKOTIA, Mladen ADAMOVIC

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Applied Psychology

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2197–2214
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of Happiness Studies
Volume	22
Issue number	5
Early online date	1 Oct 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y
Publication status	Published - Jun 2021

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Author(s).

Funding

This work was supported by the Polish National Science Centre under Grant 2016/23/D/HS6/02946; the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under Grants P17806 and 17F17806; the Hungarian OTKA under Grant K-111 789; the Brazilian National Council for Research—CNPq under Grant PQ301298/2018-1; the Czech Science Foundation under grant 20-08583S; the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia under grant number YS 17–43; the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 71873133; and the Department of educational studies, University of Roma Tre under biannual Grant DSF 2017-2018.

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Collectivism
Culture
Family happiness
Individualism
Interdependent happiness
Life satisfaction
Self-construals
Well-being

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KRYS, K., PARK, J., KOCIMSKA-ZYCH, A., KOSIARCZYK, A., SELIM, H. A., WOJTCZUK-TUREK, A., HAAS, B. W., UCHIDA, Y., TORRES, C., CAPALDI, C. A., BOND, M. H., ZELENSKI, J. M., LUN, V. M., MARICCHIOLO, F., VAUCLAIR, C., POLÁČKOVÁ ŠOLCOVÁ, I., SIRLOPÚ, D., XING, C., VIGNOLES, V. L., ... ADAMOVIC, M. (2021). Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22(5), 2197–2214. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y

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

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