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

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15260%2F20%3A73603434" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15260/20:73603434 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68081740:_____/21:00533935 RIV/61989592:15260/21:73610730
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50102 - Psychology, special (including therapy for learning, speech, hearing, visual and other physical and mental disabilities);

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA20-08583S" target="_blank" >GA20-08583S: Midlife experience: transitions, crises, and growth</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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