A Cross-cultural Study On the Association Between Societal Conditions and the Idealization of Happiness

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Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15260/25:73634600
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A Cross-cultural Study On the Association Between Societal Conditions and the Idealization of Happiness
Original language description
Although most people aspire to be happy, the extent to which people pursue or idealize experiencing high levels of happiness does differ according to sociocultural context. This study was designed to elucidate which societal and cultural indicators are the most conducive to fostering high levels of happiness idealization. To accomplish this goal, we measured levels of happiness idealization for 11,170 participants residing in 43 different countries. We utilized machine learning (random forests approach) to examine how well an array of 18 different societal and cultural-level indicators were associated with country-level happiness idealization. We found robust and consistent evidence that greater cultural religiosity was associated with reduced idealization of happiness across four different types of happiness, including life satisfaction and interdependent happiness. These findings demonstrated that how much happiness is pursued varies considerably according to sociocultural context and highlights the role of cultural religiosity in shaping how people think about high levels of happiness.
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
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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