Culture and Subjective Well-Being

Tov, William; Diener, Ed

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-2352-0_2

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“…A number of studies have identified differences between East Asian and European-American respondents. East Asian repondents have been found to have a tendency to give less extreme answers than European-Americans (Boehm et al 2011;Chong et al 2011;Hommerich and Klient 2012;Tov and Diener 2007).…”

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Measures of Children’s Subjective Well-Being: Analysis of the Potential for Cross-National Comparisons

2015

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The potential to make cross-national comparisons is an important aspect of the growing global interest in subjective well-being. Such comparisons offer the prospect of understanding variations in levels of well-being and the factors contributing to it which can be useful for practical and policy initiatives to improve the lives of the population. However, relatively little is known about the extent to which such comparisons are reliable and valid, particularly in relation to children's well-being. We make use of a large-scale pilot survey undertaken in 11 countries with over 16,000 children around the age of 12 to explore this issue. We examine four different multi-item measures of children's subjective well-being, three of which have previously been proposed in the literature. We use multi-group confirmatory factor analysis to assess the extent to which it is valid to make cross-national comparisons using these measures. Overall, our results suggest that it should be possible to compare correlations and regressions between most of the countries in our survey using each of these measures. However, cross-national comparisons of mean scores on the measures is generally not supported by our analysis.

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Measures of Children’s Subjective Well-Being: Analysis of the Potential for Cross-National Comparisons

2015

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“…We hypothesized that dispositional optimism would mediate the impact of attributional styles on SWB. Finally, although high-quality culturally-embedded and indigenous research is particularly important in advancing global SWB research, majority of the studies were conducted in western cultures despite the fact that fascinating differences exist between cultures in the patterning and content of SWB variables, as well as in the causes and correlates of SWB (Tov and Diener 2013). In the globalization age, Chinese has become more and more integrated and increasingly interdependent with the rest people of the world.…”

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The Impacts of Attributional Styles and Dispositional Optimism on Subject Well-Being: A Structural Equation Modelling Analysis

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The current study examined the impact of attributional styles on subjective well-being, with a primary focus on confirmation of the mediator role of dispositional optimism among a sample of 384 college students. Participants completed a questionnaire packet containing life orientation test-revised, Multidimensional-Multiattributional Causality Scale, and Subjective Well-Being Scale. The results revealed that both dispositional optimism and attributional styles were significantly correlated with subjective well-being. Confirmatory factor analysis identified the latent structure of attributional styles in Chinese college students and found out that both positive and negative effort need to exclude from the structure which was different from findings in Western. Structural equation modeling indicated that optimism partially mediated positive attributional styles to subject wellbeing (SWB) and negative attributional styles to SWB. The final model also revealed significant both paths from positive and negative attributional styles to subjective wellbeing through optimism. The findings extended prior researches and shed light on how attributional styles influence subjective well-being; this provides valuable evidence on how to promote subjective well-being in positive psychology.

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“…Information on population size at the municipality level was taken from http://www.econstats.com/japcab/japcab a9.htm.23 Despite the ongoing shift toward individualism caused by globalization, unique culture-specific characteristics are still present in Japan (and East Asia), originating either from prevailing philosophical traditions (e.g., Buddhism) or traits of collectivism. For a review, seeTov and Diener (2007) andUchida and Ogihara (2012).…”

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