Showing papers by "Christin-Melanie Vauclair published in 2014"
TL;DR: The findings clarify the relationship between age and SWB by demonstrating that the paradox of well-being is conditional on the economic context, and implications for individual- and country-level strategies for successful aging are discussed.
Abstract: Discussion. The findings clarify the relationship between age and SWB by demonstrating that the paradox of wellbeing is conditional on the economic conte xt. Implications for individual- and country-level strategies for successful aging are discussed.
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TL;DR: This article examined laypeople's associations of moral character in individualistic and collectivistic-oriented cultures using correspondence analysis and found that moral character yielded widely shared associations with justice and welfare concerns.
Abstract: Whether moral conceptions are universal or culture-specific is controversial in moral psychology. One option is to refrain from imposing theoretical constraints and to ask laypeople from different cultures how they conceptualize morality. Our article adopts this approach by examining laypeople’s associations of moral character in individualistic- and collectivistic-oriented cultures. Using correspondence analysis we found that the concept of moral character yielded widely shared associations with justice and welfare concerns. Yet, there were also clear cultural differences with individualistic-oriented samples associating more frequently rights-based features and collectivistic-oriented samples more frequently associating duty-based attributes. When matching freelisted trait categories with Schwartz’s value types, moral value hierarchies were similar across cultures and correlated significantly with explicit moral value ratings. We conclude that imposing constraints through an expert-designed category sys...
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