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Family First: Evidence of Consistency and Variation in the Value of Family Versus Personal Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures

2023 , Kuba Krys , June Chun Yeung , Brian W. Haas , Yvette van Osch , Aleksandra Kosiarczyk , Agata Kocimska-Zych , Claudio Torres , Heyla A. Selim , John M. Zelenski , Michael Harris Bond , Joonha Park , Vivian Miu-Chi Lun , Fridanna Maricchiolo , Christin-Melanie Vauclair , Iva Poláčková Šolcová , David Sirlopú , Cai Xing , Vivian L. Vignoles , Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg , Julien Teyssier , Chien-Ru Sun , Ursula Serdarevich , Beate Schwarz , Ruta Sargautyte , Espen Røysamb , Vladyslav Romashov , Muhammad Rizwan , Zoran Pavlović , Vassilis Pavlopoulos , Ayu Okvitawanli , Azar Nadi , Martin Nader , Nur Fariza Mustaffa , Elke Murdock , Oriana Mosca , Tamara Mohorić , Pablo Eduardo Barrientos Marroquin , Arina Malyonova , Xinhui Liu , J. Hannah Lee , Anna Kwiatkowska , Nicole Kronberger , Lucie Klůzová Kráčmarová , Natalia Kascakova , İdil Işık , Eric R. Igou , David O. Igbokwe , Diana Hanke-Boer , Alin Gavreliuc , Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir , Márta Fülöp , Vladimer Gamsakhurdia , Carla Sofia Esteves , Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa , Patrick Denoux , Salome Charkviani , Arno Baltin , Douglas Arevalo , Lily Appoh , Charity Akotia , Mladen Adamovic , Yukiko Uchida

People 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.

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Self-construals predict personal life satisfaction with different strengths across societal contexts differing in national wealth and religious heritage

2023 , Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez , Vivian L. Vignoles , Michael Harris Bond , Mladen Adamovic , Charity S. Akotia , Isabelle Albert , Lily Appoh , Arno Baltin , Pablo Eduardo Barrientos , Patrick Denoux , Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa , Carla Sofia Esteves , Márta Fülöp , Vladimer Gamsakhurdia , Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir , Alin Gavreliuc , Diana Hanke-Boer , Brian W. Haas , David O. Igbokwe , İ̇dil Işık , Natalia Kascakova , Lucie Klůzová Kračmárová , Agata Kocimska-Zych , Aleksandra Kosiarczyk , Olga Kostoula , Nicole Kronberger , Kuba Krys , Anna Kwiatkowska , J. Hannah Lee , Xinhui Liu , Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha , Arina Malyonova , Fridanna Maricchiolo , Arévalo Mira , Tamara Mohorić , Oriana Mosca , Elke Murdock , Nur Fariza Mustaffa , Vivian Miu-Chi Lun , Martin Nader , Azar Nadi , Ayu Okvitawanli , Yvette van Osch , Joonha Park , Vassilis Pavlopoulos , Zoran Pavlović , Iva Poláčková Šolcová , Eric Raymond Igou , Muhammad Rizwan , Vladyslav Romashov , Espen Røysamb , Ruta Sargautyte , Beate Schwarz , Heyla A. Selim , Ursula Serdarevich , David Sirlopú , Maria Stogianni , Stanislava Stoyanova , Chien-Ru Sun , Julien Teyssier , Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg , Claudio Torres , Yukiko Uchida , Christin-Melanie Vauclair , Cai Xing , John M. Zelenski

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The Role of Cultural Heterogeneity in Strengthening the Link Between Family Relationships and Life Satisfaction in 50 Societies

2024 , Liman Man Wai Li , Vivian Miu-Chi Lun , Michael Harris Bond , June Chun Yeung , Eric Raymond Igou , Brian W. Haas , Stanislava Stoyanova , Fridanna Maricchiolo , John M. Zelenski , Christin-Melanie Vauclair , Yukiko Uchida , Iva Poláčková Šolcová , David Sirlopú , Joonha Park , Aleksandra Kosiarczyk , Agata Kocimska-Zych , Colin A. Capaldi , Mladen Adamovic , Charity S. Akotia , Isabelle Albert , Lily Appoh , Douglas Arevalo , Arno Baltin , Patrick Denoux , Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa , Carla Sofia Esteves , Vladimer Gamsakhurdia , Márta Fülöp , Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir , Alin Gavreliuc , Diana Boer , David O. Igbokwe , İdil Işık , Natalia Kascakova , Lucie Klůzová Kračmárová , Olga Kostoula , Nicole Kronberger , Anna Kwiatkowska , J. Hannah Lee , Xinhui Liu , Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha , Arina Malyonova , Pablo Eduardo Barrientos Marroquin , Tamara Mohorić , Oriana Mosca , Elke Murdock , Nur Fariza Mustaffa , Martin Nader , Azar Nadi , Ayu Okvitawanli , Yvette van Osch , Vassilis Pavlopoulos , Zoran Pavlović , Muhammad Rizwan , Vladyslav Romashov , Espen Røysamb , Ruta Sargautyte , Beate Schwarz , Heyla A. Selim , Ursula Serdarevich , Maria Stogianni , Chien-Ru Sun , Julien Teyssier , Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg , Claudio Torres , Vivian L. Vignoles , Cai Xing , Kuba Krys

AbstractWe 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.

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Unpackaging the link between economic inequality and self-construal

2023 , Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez , Ayse K. Uskul , Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón , Guillermo B. Willis , Vivian L. Vignoles , Kuba Krys , Mladen Adamovic , Charity S. Akotia , Isabelle Albert , Lily Appoh , Arno Baltin , Pablo Eduardo Barrientos , Michael Harris Bond , Patrick Denoux , Alejandra Domínguez-Espinosa , Carla Sofia Esteves , Márta Fülöp , Vladimer Gamsakhurdia , Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir , Alin Gavreliuc , Diana Hanke-Boer , Brian W. Haas , David O. Igbokwe , İdil Işık , Natalia Kascakova , Lucie Klůzová Kračmárová , Agata Kocimska-Zych , Aleksandra Kosiarczyk , Olga Kostoula , Nicole Kronberger , Anna Kwiatkowska , J. Hannah Lee , Xinhui Liu , Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha , Arina Malyonova , Fridanna Maricchiolo , Arévalo Mira , Tamara Mohorić , Oriana Mosca , Elke Murdock , Nur Fariza Mustaffa , Vivian Miu-Chi Lun , Martin Nader , Azar Nadi , Ayu Okvitawanli , Yvette van Osch , Joonha Park , Vassilis Pavlopoulos , Zoran Pavlović , Iva Poláčková Šolcová , Eric Raymond Igou , Muhammad Rizwan , Vladyslav Romashov , Espen Røysamb , Ruta Sargautyte , Beate Schwarz , Heyla A. Selim , Ursula Serdarevich , David Sirlopú , Maria Stogianni , Stanislava Stoyanova , Chien-Ru Sun , Julien Teyssier , Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg , Claudio Torres , Yukiko Uchida , Christin-Melanie Vauclair , Cai Xing , John M. Zelenski