| Autor: |
Buttrick N; Department of Psychology., Choi H; Department of Psychology., Wilson TD; Department of Psychology., Oishi S; Department of Psychology., Boker SM; Department of Psychology., Gilbert DT; Department of Psychology., Alper S; Department of Psychology., Aveyard M; Department of Psychology., Cheong W; Department of Psychology., Čolić MV; Institute for Medical Research., Dalgar I; Department of Psychology., Doğulu C; Department of Psychology., Karabati S; Department of Business., Kim E; Department of Psychology., Knežević G; Department of Psychology., Komiya A; Research Institute for Future Design., Laclé CO; Department of Psychology., Ambrosio Lage C; Department of Psychology., Lazarević LB; Department of Psychology., Lazarević D; Faculty of Sport and Physical Education., Lins S; Department of Psychology., Blanco Molina M; Department of Psychology., Neto F; Department of Psychology., Orlić A; Faculty of Sport and Physical Education., Petrović B; Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research., Arroyo Sibaja M; Department of Psychology., Torres Fernández D; Department of Psychology., Vanpaemel W; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences., Voorspoels W; Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences., Wilks DC; Department of Psychology. |
| Abstrakt: |
Which is more enjoyable: trying to think enjoyable thoughts or doing everyday solitary activities? Wilson et al. (2014) found that American participants much preferred solitary everyday activities, such as reading or watching TV, to thinking for pleasure. To see whether this preference generalized outside of the United States, we replicated the study with 2,557 participants from 12 sites in 11 countries. The results were consistent in every country: Participants randomly assigned to do something reported significantly greater enjoyment than did participants randomly assigned to think for pleasure. Although we found systematic differences by country in how much participants enjoyed thinking for pleasure, we used a series of nested structural equation models to show that these differences were fully accounted for by country-level variation in 5 individual differences, 4 of which were positively correlated with thinking for pleasure (need for cognition, openness to experience, meditation experience, and initial positive affect) and 1 of which was negatively correlated (reported phone usage). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved). |
