Situational experience around the world: A replication and extension in 62 countries

Abstract

The current study seeks to replicate and extend principal findings reported in The World at 7:00, a project that examined the psychological experience of situations in 20 countries. Method: Data were collected from participants in 62 countries (N = 15,318), recruited from universities by local collaborators to complete the study via a custombuilt website using 42 languages. Results: Several findings of the previous study were replicated. The average reported situational experience around the world was mildly positive. The same countries tended to be most alike in reported situational experience (r = .60) across the two studies, among the countries included in both. As in the previous study, the homogeneity of reported situational experience was significantly greater within than between countries, although the difference was small. The previously reported exploratory finding that negative aspects of situations varied more across countries than positive aspects did not replicate. Correlations between aspects of reported situational experience and country-level average value scores, personality, and demographic variables were largely similar between the two studies. Conclusion: The findings underscore the importance of cross-cultural situational research and the need to replicate its results, and highlight the complex interplay of culture and situational experience.

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“…Participants and Procedure Participants in study 3 were 419 students and community members recruited in the second wave of the International Situations Project. A complete procedure for the International Situations Project is available in Guillaume et al (2016) and a more recent description in (Lee, Gardiner, Baranski, & Funder, 2020), but briefly, these participants were invited to fill in a standard internet survey comprising eight different self-report measures. Participants' age ranged from 17 to 50 years old (M=19.73, SD=3.46), being most of them women (85.2%) and almost entirely younger than 25 years old (97.1%).…”

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“…The analyses presented below stem from the International Situations Project (ISP), a large cross-cultural study assessing situational experience, daily behavior, and individual differences. Other analyses based on this large and diverse data set have been published [28][29][30] or are in progress, but all analyses reported in the present article are new and unique. For an overview of the project, including all measures and translations, see situationslab.com/theinternational-situations-project.…”

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“…The International Situations Project is a large study that seeks to explore variation and similarity of situational experience and individual differences around the world (Baranski et al, 2021; Lee et al, 2020; see https://osf.io/yv2nq/ for a complete list of previous publications) 3 . The measures described below are the ones relevant to the current analyses and are unique to this article.…”

“…1Data from three data collection sites had fewer than 50 participants and were not included. Data from 11 additional data collection sites included in previous publications using the ISP dataset (see Lee et al, 2020) did not provide translations of open-ended VPC responses and were thus also not included.…”