Reflecting the World “Out There”: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Worries, Values and Well-Being

Confronting macrosocial worries: Worry about environmental problems and proactive coping among a group of young volunteers

“…On the one hand, this supports earlier studies, which have found that macrosocial worries among young people often are positively related to other-oriented values [28][29][30][31]. On the other hand, compared to a study by Degenhardt [13] where adult life-style pioneers were interviewed, the result of the present study is different.…”

“…other-oriented values of both a humanistic and a biospheric kind are positively related to macrosocial worries about society and the environment [28][29][30][31]. Thus, the phenomenological and existential meaning of our anxieties and worries does not always have to be about our own security; it could also be about self-transcendent values being threatened.…”

Traditional versus modern values, self‐perceived interpersonal factors, and posttraumatic stress in Chinese and German crime victims

“…The influence of value orientations on clinical problems has only rarely been examined up until now (Boehnke, Stromberg, Regmi, Richmond, & Chandra, 1998; Maercker, 2001). In a previous study using a secondary data analysis of two independent data sets by the WHO and value researchers in eleven countries, it was shown that up to 50% of the variance of different prevalences of ICD‐10 diagnoses (depression, generalized anxiety disorder, alcohol dependency) could be explained by cultural values (Maercker, 2001, 2004).…”

Does Individual Secularism Promote Life Satisfaction? The Moderating Role of Societal Development

“…Conversely, value types of conformity, tradition, security, and power are regarded as detrimental to well-being (Gat 1997, unpublished manuscript, cited in Sagiv andSchwartz 2000). Using the Schwartz Value Survey (1992), a study of college students in Germany, Nepal, and Fiji found that not only self-enhancement values, including power/achievement, and hedonism, but also values that emphasize maintenance of status-quo, including security and conformity, related to personal worries that was related to poor mental health (Boehnke et al 1998). Moreover, the study of Sagiv and Schwartz (2000) found that the value types of achievement, self-direction, and stimulation associated positively, whereas tradition value associated negatively with affective well-being among students and adults from Israel and former East and West Germany.…”