Culture Matters When Designing a Successful Happiness-Increasing Activity

By Kristin Layous, Hyunjung Lee, Incheol Choi, Sonja Lyubomirsky. 2013

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Putting the ‘app’ in Happiness: A Randomised Controlled Trial of a Smartphone-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Enhance Wellbeing (2016, methodology): “…employing its own approach to wellbeing enhancement using a different combination of techniques to that of writing a letter of gratitude (e.g. Layous et al. 2013); finding new ways to use character strengths (Seligman et al. 2005); practicing optimism (e.g. Layous et al. 2012) and so on.”
Does Happiness Promote Career Success? Revisiting the Evidence (2018, background): “…demonstrate that directing individuals to engage in prosocial behavior increases well-being (Chancellor, Margolis, Jacobs Bao, & Lyubomirsky, 2017; Layous, Lee, Choi, & Lyubomirsky, 2013; Lyubomirsky, Sheldon, & Schkade, 2005; Nelson et al., 2015; Nelson, Layous, Cole, & Lyubomirsky, 2016;…”
Review of Brief School-Based Positive Psychological Interventions: a Taster for Teachers and Educators (2017, background): “…the 24 character strengths—have shown distinct ways of considering gratitude in lay people (Morgan et al. 2014), distinct outcomes following benefit receiving (as measured by vignettes; Naito et al. 2005) and differential impact of interventions (acts of kindness and gratitude; Layous et al. 2013).”
Gratitude and Subjective Wellbeing: A Proposal of Two Causal Frameworks (2017, background): “The authors suggest that South Koreans might have experienced more mixed emotions than U.S. participants as a result of the interventions, such as indebtedness as well as gratitude.”
It’s good to do good and receive good: The impact of a ‘pay it forward’ style kindness intervention on giver and receiver well-being (2015, unknown): “For example, one study conducted in the United States and South Korea found that participants from both cultures increased in wellbeing when performing kind acts over a few weeks (Layous et al., 2013).”
Functions of Positive Emotions: Gratitude as a Motivator of Self-Improvement and Positive Change (2017, result): “For example, in one study, South Koreans benefitted significantly less from expressing gratitude compared to U.S. participants (Layous et al., 2013; see also Boehm et al., 2011, for parallel results with Asian Americans).”
Integrating Positive and Clinical Psychology: Viewing Human Functioning as Continua from Positive to Negative Can Benefit Clinical Assessment, Interventions and Understandings of Resilience (2017, background): “2006), China (Chan 2010) and Korea (Layous et al. 2013).”