Culture and conceptions of happiness: individual oriented and social oriented swb

By Luo Lu, R. Gilmour. 2004

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Subfields: Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

1. Jan Pflug
2. D. Chan
3. Dina Šverko
4. Nansook Park
5. Luo Lu
6. A. Zalewska
7. A. Bojanowska
8. R. Gilman

In Social Psychology

1. E. Scott Huebner
2. Nansook Park
3. Lili Tian
4. D. Chan
5. R. Gilman
6. Jan Pflug
7. P. Alex Linley
8. John Maltby

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Culture on the Individual Subjective Well-Being of the Italian Population: An Exploratory Study (2011, result): “... variation in happiness and subjective well-being affects several dimensions of primary importance, such as the cultural meanings of happiness, the motivational basis of happiness, and the very predictors of happiness, highlighting in particular the tension between the selfcentred, individualisti”
• Happiness and Subjective Wellbeing in Mainland China (2008, background): “(Table 1) have explored diverse topics such as the cultural conceptions of happiness (Lu 2001; Lu and Gilmour 2004 ); perceived quality of life (Chappell 2005); satisfaction with different life domains (Tsou and Liu 2001; acculturation (Zheng et al. 2004); and variation in relation to variables suc”
• Emergence and composition of the traditional‐modern bicultural self of people in contemporary Taiwanese societies (2006, background): “…framework of individual-oriented and social-oriented self, and supported by the rich folk psychological accounts of happiness by Chinese and American students (Lu, 2001; Lu & Gilmour, 2004), a pair of contrasting cultural conceptions of SWB was proposed and analyzed (Lu & Gilmour, in press).”
• Job Insecurity and Well-Being: Moderation by Employability (2008, methodology): “rewards for efforts (Lu and Gilmour 2004). This study focuses on employees’ affective well-being, specifically general distress and life satisfaction. These variables were selected to measure context-free affective well-being, as suggested by Warr’s (1987) formulation of the content-discontent axis.”
• Orientations to happiness and subjective well‐being among Chinese prospective and in‐service teachers in Hong Kong (2009, background): “The emphases on meaning and engagement were consistent with traditional Chinese teachings that value spiritual fulfilment and regard the gratification of physical pleasure as less desirable (Lu & Gilmour, 2004 ).”
• THE PARADOXICAL EFFECTS OF PURSUING POSITIVE EMOTION When and Why Wanting to Feel Happy Backfi res (2013, background): “Research suggests that happiness can have diff erent meanings across diff erent cultures (Lu & Gilmour, 2004; Uchida & Kitayama, 2009; Uchida, Norasakkunkit, & Kitayama, 2004).”
• Lay Understanding of Happiness and the Experience of Well-Being: Are Some Conceptions of Happiness More Beneficial than Others? (2016, background): “…beliefs (McMahan and Estes 2010b); however, lay conceptions typically include both eudaimonic and hedonistic elements, such as mental states of satisfaction and contentment, positive emotions, achievement and control, selfautonomy, freedom from ill-being and relationships (Lu and Gilmour 2004).”
• Everyday Understandings of Happiness, Good Life, and Satisfaction: Three Different Facets of Well-being (2017, background): “Some of these studies (Kim et al. 2007; Galati et al. 2006; Lu and Gilmour 2004; Pflug 2009; Delle Fave et al. 2011) have made use of open-ended questions, thus refraining from imposing researcher-defined conceptualizations onto participants.”
• Cross-National Adolescent Multidimensional Life Satisfaction Reports: Analyses of Mean Scores and Response Style Differences (2008, result): “Finally, the findings in this study also may have reflected real-time political, social and economic changes that have occurred in collectivistic nations over time (Liao et al., 2005; Lu and Gilmour, 2004; Shiomi and Loo, 1999).”
• Psychometric Evaluation of the Simplified Chinese Version of Flourishing Scale (2016, background): “Chinese often pay attention to the collectivism, harmony, interrelationships, and social norms (Lu & Gilmour, 2004).”
• Folk Theories of Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Conceptions of Happiness in Germany and South Africa (2009, background): “…that although happiness as a state of mind is universal, its meaning takes culture-specific forms (Bagozzi et al. 1999; Chiasson et al. 1996; Diener and Diener 1995; Duncan and Grazzani-Gavazzi 2004; Kwan et al. 1997; Lu and Gilmour 2004; Lu et al. 2001a; Suh et al. 1998; Uchida et al. 2001).”