Book ChapterDOI
Culture and subjective well-being
William Tov,Ed Diener +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this article, the authors argue that some types of well-being are consistent across cultures, whereas there are also unique patterns of wellbeing in societies that are not comparable across cultures.Abstract:
Subjective well-being (SWB) is composed of people’s evaluations of their lives, including pleasant affect, infrequent unpleasant affect, life satisfaction (LS). We review the research literature concerning the influence of culture on SWB. We argue that some types of well-being, as well as their causes, are consistent across cultures, whereas there are also unique patterns of well-being in societies that are not comparable across cultures. Thus, well-being can be understood to some degree in universal terms, but must also be understood within the framework of each culture. We review the methodological challenges to assessing SWB in different cultures. One important question for future research is the degree to which feelings of well-being lead to the same outcomes in different cultures. The overarching theme of the paper is that there are pancultural experiences of SWB that can be compared across cultures, but that there are also culture-specific patterns that make cultures unique in their experience of well-being.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Environmental and Pro-Social Norms: Evidence on Littering
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the relationship between pro-social norms and its implications for improved environmentsl outcomes and provide empirical evidence to demonstrate a small but significant positive impact between perceived environmental cooperation (reduced public littering) and increased voluntary environmental morale.
Journal ArticleDOI
Felicidade, bem-estar subjetivo e comportamento acadêmico de estudantes universitários
TL;DR: In this paper, a study had the purpose of determining rates of happiness and well-being, and their connection to academic behavior, in a sample of 252 university students, attending the last years of several courses and different College Institutions.
Book
Cultural-Existential Psychology: The Role of Culture in Suffering and Threat
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of a traditionalist group of Mennonites in the midwestern United States was used to examine the relationship between religion, community, guilt, anxiety, and the experience of natural disaster.
Book
Principles of Social Psychology
TL;DR: In this article, Stangor wrote a book to help students organize their thinking about social psychology at a conceptual level, for it is these principles that will allow them to critically analyze new situations and really put their knowledge to use.
Journal ArticleDOI
Satisfaction With Life Among Adolescents From Portuguese Immigrant Families in Switzerland
Félix Neto,José Barros +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determine the level of satisfaction with life among adolescents from Portuguese immigrant families in Switzerland and the factors related thereto, finding that psychological symptoms were the most important predictor of life satisfaction.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
Richard M. Ryan,Edward L. Deci +1 more
TL;DR: Research guided by self-determination theory has focused on the social-contextual conditions that facilitate versus forestall the natural processes of self-motivation and healthy psychological development, leading to the postulate of three innate psychological needs--competence, autonomy, and relatedness.
Posted Content
The Satisfaction with Life Scale
TL;DR: The Satisfaction With Life Scale is narrowly focused to assess global life satisfaction and does not tap related constructs such as positive affect or loneliness, but is shown to have favorable psychometric properties, including high internal consistency and high temporal reliability.
Book
Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior
Edward L. Deci,Richard M. Ryan +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the development of Causality Orientations Theory, a theory of personality Influences on Motivation, and its application in information-Processing Theories.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Satisfaction With Life Scale.
TL;DR: The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) as mentioned in this paper is a scale to measure global life satisfaction, which does not tap related constructs such as positive affect or loneliness, and has favorable psychometric properties, including high internal consistency and high temporal reliability.