Goals, Culture, and Subjective Well-Being

By S. Oishi, E. Diener. 2001

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Understanding Well-Being and Optimal Functioning: Applying the Multilevel Personality in Context (MPIC) Model (2011, methodology): “For example, Oishi and Diener (2001) showed that the effects of goal motivations upon SWB varied across two different cultural groups; striving “because it is fun” was less predictive of SWB in an Asian sample.”
Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being (2018, neutral): “However, Oishi and Diener (2001) found that Japanese who became more satisfied with their lives over time were those who attained the goals they pursued to please their parents, whereas Americans who became more satisfied with their lives over time were those who attained the goals they pursued for…”
Culture and Subjective Well-Being (2013, background): “For example, the SWB of Asians and Asian Americans is better predicted by satisfaction with goals involving family and friends than with goals concerned mainly with the self ( Oishi & Diener, 2001; Radhakrishnan & Chan, 1997).”
Social Anxiety Dimensions, Neuroticism, and the Contours of Positive Psychological Functioning (2002, background): “Numerous studies have shown the SWLS to be sensitive to the influence of positive and negative life events, associated with specific domains of satisfaction (e.g., relationships, leisure, education; Oishi & Diener, 2001 ), and convergent with interview ratings, informant reports, and intraindividua”
Personal or Interpersonal Construal of Happiness: A Cultural Psychological Perspective (2012, background): “Previous research has suggested that seeking goals that are consistent with mainstream cultural values increases wellbeing (e.g., Oishi & Diener, 2001; Uchida et al., 2008).”
Cultures and Selves (2010, background): “…that are separate from their contexts (e.g., Masuda et al., 2005), perceiving one’s self to be consistent across situations (e.g., Suh, 2002), and experiencing well-being in the pursuit of fun and enjoyment (e.g., Oishi & Diener, 2001) derive from and contribute to a sense of independence.”
Analysis of factorial invariance across gender in the Taiwan version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (2006, background): “…results cannot be generalized to populations from different cultural areas, because people from different cultures may have different definition, perception and interpretation of SWB (e.g., Diener & Diener, 1995; Oishi, 2002; Oishi & Diener, 2001, 2003; Suh, Diener, Oishi, & Triandis, 1998).”
Goal conflict and psychological well-being: A meta-analysis (2017, result): “In research on goal conflict, the omission of cultural variables is especially glaring considering the prior research suggesting that culture has an effect on the relationship between goal characteristics and subjective well-being (Oishi & Diener, 2001).”
Psychometric Evaluation of the Malay Satisfaction With Life Scale (2009, background): “…because, although the essential meaning of the SWLS is retained in translation, the factor structure may not generalise to populations in different cultural settings, as such populations may have different conceptions of subjective well-being (e.g., Oishi 2002; Oishi and Diener 2001, 2003).”
A cultural task analysis of implicit independence: comparing North America, Western Europe, and East Asia. (2009, positive): “The cultural mandate of independence can be achieved by performing various tasks such as expressing one’s unique self (Kim & Markus, 1999), performing personal goal pursuit and self-promotion (Oishi & Diener, 2001), and maintaining high self-esteem (Crocker & Park, 2004).”
Integrating The Diverse Definitions of Happiness: A Time-Sequential Framework of Subjective Well-Being (2005, background): “Individual differences in goals, as well as culture (Oishi and Diener, 2001), are likely to influence what people consider important when evaluating their lives.”
Getting to the “COR” (2014, background): “Oishi and Diener (2001), as one example, found across three studies that pursuing a goal that is in line with the expectations of others led to positive outcomes for Asian Americans and Japanese college students.”
Linking Goal Progress and Subjective Well-Being: A Meta-analysis (2015, methodology): “Studies were included if they operationalized SWB as life satisfaction (e.g., Bak and Brandtstädter 1998; Oishi and Diener 2001), current state of positive or negative affect (e.”
Where Do We Go From Here? The Goal Perspective in Psychotherapy (2006, background): “A series of studies explicitly focusing on cultural differences has been done by Oishi and Diener (2001). In three studies they examined the role of independent and interdependent goal pursuit in the subjective well-being of Asian and European American college students.”