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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.Publication 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.