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Publication Family first : evidence of consistency and variation in the value of family versus personal happiness across 49 different cultures(2023) Krys, Kuba; Chun Yeung, June; Haas, Brian W.; Osch, Yvette van; Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra; Kocimska-Zych, Agata; Torres, Claudio; Selim, Heyla A.; Zelenski, John M.; Harris Bond, Michael; Park, Joonha; Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi; Maricchiolo, Fridanna; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Poláčková Šolcová, Iva; Sirlopú, David; Xing, Cai; Vignoles, Vivian L.; Tilburg, Wijnand A. P. van; Teyssier, Julien; Sun, Chien-Ru; Serdarevich, Ursula; Schwarz, Beate; Sargautyte, Ruta; Røysamb, Espen; Romashov, Vladyslav; Rizwan, Muhammad; Pavlović, Zoran; Pavlopoulos, Vassilis; Okvitawanli, Ayu; Nadi, Azar; Nader, Martin; Mustaffa, Nur Fariza; Murdock, Elke; Mosca, Oriana; Mohorić, Tamara; Barrientos Marroquin, Pablo Eduardo; Malyonova, Arina; Liu, Xinhui; Lee, J. HannahPeople care about their own well-being and about the well-being of their families. It is currently, however, unknown how much people tend to value their own versus their family’s well-being. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size (N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries (N = 49). We found that the strength of the idealization of family over personal happiness preference was small (average Cohen’s ds = .20, range −.02 to.48), but present in 98% of the studied countries, with statistical significance in 73% to 75%, and variance across countries <2%. We also found that the size of this effect did vary somewhat across cultural contexts. In Latin American cultures highest on relational mobility, the idealization of family over personal happiness was very small (average Cohen’s ds for Latin America = .15 and .18), while in Confucian Asia cultures lowest on relational mobility, this effect was closer to medium (ds > .40 and .30). Importantly, we did not find strong support for traditional theories in cross-cultural psychology that associate collectivism with greater prioritization of the family versus the individual; country-level individualism–collectivism was not associated with variation in the idealization of family versus individual happiness. Our findings indicate that no matter how much various populists abuse the argument of “protecting family life” to disrupt emancipation, family happiness seems to be a pan-culturally phenomenon. Family well-being is a key ingredient of social fabric across the world, and should be acknowledged by psychology and well-being researchers and by progressive movements too.Item Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries(2021) Krys, Kuba; Park, Joonha; Adamovic, Mladen; Sirlopú, David; Selim, Heyla A.; Wojtczuk‑Turek, Agnieszka; Haas, Brian W.; Uchida, Yukiko; Torres, Claudio; Capaldi, Colin A.; Bond, Michael Harris; Zelensk, John M.; Lun, Vivian Miu‑Chi; Maricchiolo, Fridanna; Vauclair, Christin‑Melanie; Šolcová, Iva Poláčková; Xing, Cai; Vignoles, Vivian L.; Tilburg, Wijnand A. P. van; Teyssier, Julien; Sun, Chien‑Ru; Stoyanova, Stanislava; Serdarevich, Ursula; Schwarz, Beate; Sargautyte, Ruta; Røysamb, Espen; Romashov, Vladyslav; Rizwan, Muhammad; Pavlović, Zoran; Pavlopoulos, Vassilis; Osch, Yvette van; Okvitawanli, Ayu; Nadi, Azar; Nader, Martín; Fariza, Mustafa Nur; Mosca, Oriana; Mohorić, Tamara; Barrientos, Pablo Eduardo; Malyonova, Arina; Liu, Xinhui; Lee, J. Hannah; Kwiatkowska, Anna; Kronberger, Nicole; Kračmárová, Lucie Klůzová; Kascakova, Natalia; Işık, İdil; Igou, Eric R.; Igbokwe, David O.; Hanke‑Boer, Diana; Gavreliuc, Alin; Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.; Fülöp, Márta; Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer; Esteves, Carla Sofa; Domínguez‑Espinosa, Alejandra; Denoux, Patrick; Charkviani, Salome; Baltin, Arno; Mira, Arévalo D.M.; Appoh, Lily; Albert, Isabelle; Akotia, Charity S.Numerous studies document that societal happiness is correlated with individualism, but the nature of this phenomenon remains understudied. In the current paper, we address this gap and test the reasoning that individualism correlates with societal happiness because the most common measure of societal happiness (i.e., country-level aggregates of personal life satisfaction) is individualism-themed. With the data collected from 13,009 participants across ffty countries, we compare associations of four types of happiness (out of which three are more collectivism-themed than personal life satisfaction) with two diferent measures of individualism. We replicated previous fndings by demonstrating that societal happiness measured as country-level aggregate of personal life satisfaction is correlated with individualism. Importantly though, we also found that the country-level aggregates of the collectivism-themed measures of happiness do not tend to be signifcantly correlated with individualism. Implications for happiness studies and for policy makers are signaledPublication Societal emotional environments and crosscultural differences in life satisfaction: A forty-nine country study(2022) Krys, Kuba; Chun Yeung, June; Capaldi,Colin A.; Miu-Chi Lun, Vivian; Torres, Claudio; Tilburg, Wijnand A. P. van; Harris Bond, Michael; Zelenski, John M.; Haas, Brian W.; Park, Joonha; Maricchiolo, Fridanna; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra; Kocimska-Zych, Agata; Kwiatkowska, Anna; Adamovic, Mladen; Pavlopoulos, Vassilis; Fülöp, Márta; Sirlopu, David; Okvitawanli, Ayu; Boer, Diana; Teyssier, Julien; Malyonova, Arina; Gavreliuc, Alin; Uchida, Yukiko; Serdarevich, Ursula; Akotia, Charity; Appoh, Lily; Arévalo Mira, D.M.; Baltin, Arno; Denoux, Patrick; Dominguez-Espinosa, Alejandra; Esteves, Carla Sofia; Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer; Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.; Igbokwe, David O.; Igou, Eric R.; Işık, İdil; Kascakova, Natalia; Klůzová Kračmárová, LucieIn this paper, we introduce the concept of ‘societal emotional environment’: the emotional climate of a society (operationalized as the degree to which positive and negative emotions are expressed in a society). Using data collected from 12,888 participants across 49 countries, we show how societal emotional environments vary across countries and cultural clusters, and we consider the potential importance of these differences for well-being. Multilevel analyses supported a ‘doubleedged sword’ model of negative emotion expression, where expression of negative emotions predicted higher life satisfaction for the expresser but lower life satisfaction for society. In contrast, partial support was found for higher societal life satisfaction in positive societal emotional environments. Our study highlights the potential utility and importance of distinguishing between positive and negative emotion expression, and adopting both individual and societal perspectives in well-being research. Individual pathways to happiness may not necessarily promote the happiness of others.Publication The Role of Cultural Heterogeneity in Strengthening the Link Between Family Relationships and Life Satisfaction in 50 Societies(2024) Wai Li, Liman Man; Miu-Chi Lun, Vivian; Harris Bond, Michael; Yeung, June Chun; Raymond Igou, Eric; Haas, Brian W.; Maricchiolo, Fridanna; Zelenski, John M.; Vauclair, Christin- Melanie; Uchida, Yukiko; Poláčková Šolcová, Iva; Sirlopú, David; Joonha Park, Joonha; Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra; Kocimska-Zych, Agata; Colin A. Capaldi, Colin A.; Adamovic, Mladen; Akotia, Charity S.; Albert, Isabelle; Appoh, Lily; Arevalo, Douglas; Baltin, Arno; Denoux, Patrick; Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra; Esteves, Carla Sofia; Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer; Fülöp, Márta; Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.; Gavreliuc, Alin; Boer, Diana; Igbokwe,David O.; Işık, Idil; Kascakova, Natalia; Kračmárová, Lucie Kluzová; Kostoula, Olga; Kronberger, Nicole; Kwiatkowska, Anna; Lee, J. Hannah; Liu, Xinhui; Łużniak-Piecha, MagdalenaWe argue that the importance of family relationships for individual well-being varies across societies as a function of a society’s degree of cultural heterogeneity. To examine the role of family relationships, we analyzed the responses from 13,009 participants in 50 societies on their life satisfaction across societies varying in their levels of historical and contemporary cultural heterogeneity. Such heterogeneity creates differences in the frequency of interacting with unfamiliar groups, which leads families to become more central to their members’ satisfaction with life. Multi-level analyses showed that historical and contemporary cultural heterogeneity moderated the pattern such that greater historical or contemporary cultural heterogeneity of society promoted a stronger positive relation between family relationship satisfaction and individual life satisfaction. Our results also revealed that the moderating role of historical cultural heterogeneity was more reliable than that of contemporary cultural heterogeneity. These findings demonstrate the importance of societal demography in shaping people’s psychological processes in different historical periods, suggesting a universal, trans-historical cultural process.