Differences in Happiness-Increasing Strategies Between and Within Affective Profiles

Garcia, Danilo; Kjell, Oscar

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“…By contrast, either the Indonesian or Swedish respondents who mentioned interdependent factors as the matters that made them happy, experienced more subjective well-being than those who reported personal factors as their happiness contributors. Garcia, Schütz, MacDonald, and Archer (2016) could offer an alternative explanation for this issue. In their studies, they found that happier people who scored high on positive affect with either high or low negative affect (i.e., having self-fulfilling or high affective profile) were more likely to choose social affiliation as the happiness-increasing strategy.…”

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Subjective well-being of Indonesian and Swedish college students: A cross-cultural study on happiness

A’yuninnisa¹,

Adrianson²

2019

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This study aimed to explore and compare levels of subjective well-being and contributing factors that promote happiness in two countries, Indonesia and Sweden. A total of 104 Swedish and 112 Indonesian college students participated in this study. The instruments used were Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson, Clark, & Tellegen, 1988), Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985), and an open-ended question, "What are the three most important things in your life that make you happy?" Data analyses were conducted in two phases for qualitative and quantitative data. Two major themes, interdependent and dependent factors of happiness, emerged from the qualitative data.Results showed that respondents from both countries reported interdependent factors as their main happiness contributor. The quantitative result demonstrated no significant effects on subjective well-being for culture and its interaction with the happiness factor. Instead, only the happiness factor had a significant effect on subjective well-being. People with interdependent happiness were happier than those who pursue independent happiness factors. This study observed no difference in the level of subjective well-being and happiness factors across the cultures.

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Subjective well-being of Indonesian and Swedish college students: A cross-cultural study on happiness

A’yuninnisa¹,

Adrianson²

2019

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“…More recently, researchers (e.g., Garcia, 2012;Garcia, Kerekes, Andersson-Arntén, & Archer, 2012;Garcia, Schütz, & Archer, 2015;Jimmefors et al, 2014) have focused on differences between profiles with regard to personality measures using models such as the Big Five model (Costa & McCrae, 1992) and Cloninger's psychobiological model (Temperament and Character Inventory;Cloninger, Svrakic, & Przybeck, 1993). As hypothesized by these researchers, individuals with a self-fulfilling profile scored high in selfdirectedness, high in cooperativeness, high in persistence, high in extraversion, high in self-regulatory strategies defined as locomotion or a "just-do-it" mentality, and happiness-increasing strategies related to agency (e.g., frequently exercising, active leisure, goal-pursuit), communion (e.g., helping others, receiving help from others), and spirituality (e.g., seek support in faith).…”

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“…Other important differences between the individuals with a self-fulfilling and those with a high affective profile are, for example, that individuals with a high affective profile do not score high in helpful behavior, tolerance toward others, and empathy (i.e., communion and cooperative traits). Individuals with a self-fulfilling profile are, for instance, the only ones who report that they seek support in faith as one strategy in their own pursue of the happy life by guest on April 5, 2016 Downloaded from (Garcia, Schütz, & Archer, 2015;Schütz, Sailer, et al, 2013). However, individuals with a high affective profile score higher than individuals with low negative affect profiles (i.e., low affective and self-destructive) in self-transcendence (i.e., a spiritual trait partially defined as the ability to sense a unity with something bigger than the self; Cloninger, 2004;Garcia, 2012).…”

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The Dark Side of the Affective Profiles

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The affective profiles model is based on the combination of individuals’ experience of high/low positive affect and high/low negative affect: self-fulfilling, high affective, low affective, and self-destructive. We used the profiles as the backdrop for the investigation of individual differences in malevolent character traits (i.e., the Dark Triad: psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism). A total of 1,000 participants (age: M = 31.50 SD = 10.27, 667 males and 333 females), recruited through Amazons’ Mechanical Turk (MTurk), responded to the Positive Affect Negative Affect Schedule and the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen. Individuals with a high affective profile reported higher degree of narcissism than those with any other profile, and together with individuals with a self-destructive profile, also higher degree of Machiavellianism and psychopathy than individuals with a low affective and self-fulfilling profile. Males scored higher in Machiavellianism and psychopathy. Together with earlier findings, our results show that while individuals in both the self-fulfilling and high affective profiles are extrovert and self-directed, only those in the high affective profile express an immature and malevolent character (i.e., high levels of all Dark Triad traits). Conversely, individuals in the self-fulfilling profile have earlier reported higher levels of cooperativeness and faith. More importantly, the unique association between high levels of positive emotions and narcissism and the unified association between negative emotions to both psychopathy and Machiavellianism imply a dyad rather than a triad of malevolent character traits.

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Affective Profiles, Health, and Well-Being in Indonesia

Adrianson

2023

The Affective Profiles Model

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Differences in Happiness-Increasing Strategies Between and Within Affective Profiles

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Subjective well-being of Indonesian and Swedish college students: A cross-cultural study on happiness

Subjective well-being of Indonesian and Swedish college students: A cross-cultural study on happiness

The Dark Side of the Affective Profiles

Affective Profiles, Health, and Well-Being in Indonesia

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