Subjective Well-Being Across Cultures
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All individuals strive to be happy. How they pursue this ultimate human goal, however, seems to vary in interesting ways across cultures. Three key findings have emerged from recent scientific research: 1) individualist cultures are happier than collectivists, 2) psychological attributes characterizing the self (e.g., self-esteem, self-consistency) are more relevant to the happiness of Western individualists than to the happiness of collectivists, and 3) the self-judgment of happiness is anchored on different types of cues and experiences across cultures. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. This article is available in Online Readings in Psychology and Culture: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/orpc/vol10/iss1/1
Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- S. Oishi
- E. Diener
- E. Suh
- Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow
- Ming Ming Chiu
- Catherine McBride
- Carol L. Gohm
- U. Schimmack
In Social Psychology
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