Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups

Joshanloo, Mohsen; Lepshokova, Zarina; Panyusheva, Tatiana; Natalia, Amerkhanova; Poon, Wai Ching; Yeung, Victoria Wai Lan; Sundaram, Suresh; Achoui, Mustapha; Asano, Ryosuke; Igarashi, Tasuku; Tsukamoto, Saori; Rizwan, Muhammad; Khilji, Imran Ahmed; Ferreira, Maria Cristina; Pang, Joyce S.; Ho, Lok Sang; Han, Gyuseog; Bae, Jang–Ho; Jiang, Ding-Yu

doi:10.1177/0022022113505357

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“…The present research contributes to this effort by assessing differences in how individuals across cultures conceptualize happiness. Future research will benefit from a continued appreciation of individual and cultural differences in how happiness is viewed (Harmon-Jones, Harmon-Jones, Amodio, & Gable, 2011; Joshanloo et al, 2013; McMahan et al, 2013; Oishi et al, 2013; Tsai, 2007). …”

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Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being.

Ford¹,

Dmitrieva

Heller

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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Pursuing happiness can paradoxically impair well-being. Here, we propose the potential downsides to pursuing happiness may be specific to individualistic cultures. In collectivistic (vs. individualistic) cultures, pursuing happiness may be more successful because happiness is viewed – and thus pursued – in relatively socially-engaged ways. In four geographical regions that vary in level of collectivism (U.S., Germany, Russia, East Asia), we assessed participants’ well-being, motivation to pursue happiness, and to what extent they pursued happiness in socially-engaged ways. Motivation to pursue happiness predicted lower well-being in the U.S., did not predict well-being in Germany, and predicted higher well-being in Russia and in East Asia. These cultural differences in the link between motivation to pursue happiness and well-being were explained by cultural differences in the socially-engaged pursuit of happiness. These findings suggest that culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness is linked with better or worse well-being, perhaps via how people pursue happiness.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being.

Ford¹,

Dmitrieva

Heller

et al. 2015

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

138

104

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“…For example, independent (vs. interdependent) cultures more strongly value positive emotions (especially high-arousal positive emotions like excitement [34]) [35–37] and more highly devalue negative emotions [37–39]. Critically, valuing an emotion should lead to attempts to increase that emotion through emotion regulation and devaluing an emotion should lead to attempts to decrease that emotion [40].…”

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Culture and emotion regulation

Ford

Mauss

2015

Current Opinion in Psychology

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While anthropological research has long emphasized cultural differences in whether emotions are viewed as beneficial versus harmful, psychological science has only recently begun to systematically examine those differences and their implications for emotion regulation and well-being. Underscoring the pervasive role of culture in people’s emotions, we summarize research that has examined links between culture, emotion regulation, and well-being. Specifically, we focus on two questions. First, how does culture lead individuals to regulate their emotions? And second, how does culture modulate the link between emotion regulation and well-being? We finish by suggesting directions for future research to advance the study of culture and emotion regulation.

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“…happiness, optimism, joy, contentment), but less on different views around happiness (e.g. Joshanloo et al, 2014). Thus, they proposed various views around happiness such as fear of happiness, the beliefs that happiness results in bad things to happen (Joshanloo, 2013), and fragility of happiness, the beliefs that happiness is temporary and fragile (Joshanloo et al, 2015).…”

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Reliability and Validity Studies of Externality of Happiness Scale Among Turkish Adults

Yıldırım

Barmanpek

Farag

2018

ESJ

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Externality of happiness is a psychological construct that refers to the degree to which individuals perceive their level of happiness as beyond their control and mostly dependent to external factors. The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Externality of Happiness scale (EOH) among a Turkish adult sample. A total of 230 participants (152 males and 78 females; mean age = 37.8 years, SD = 9.1) completed self-report measures of externality of happiness, life satisfaction, flouring, self-esteem, and fear of happiness. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis supported a one-factor structure for the EOH. The EOH was found to be negatively correlated with life satisfaction, flourishing, and self-esteem and positively correlated with fear of happiness. The scale also showed incremental value over self-esteem in predicting life satisfaction. Furthermore, the scale was found to be discriminated from fear of happiness. Moreover, evidence was provided for internal-consistency reliability. Overall, the findings suggested that Turkish version of EOH had adequate reliability and validity scores and that it can be used as a useful measurement tool to assess externality of happiness beliefs in future clinical practice and research.

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Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups

Cited by 98 publications

References 69 publications

Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being.

Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being.

Culture and emotion regulation

Reliability and Validity Studies of Externality of Happiness Scale Among Turkish Adults

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