Lay definitions of happiness across nations: The primacy of inner harmony and relational connectedness

Autor: Ulisses Ferreira de Araújo, Teresa Freire, Kamlesh Singh, María del Rocío Hernández-Pozo, Jeanne Nakamura, Marié P. Wissing, Paul E. Jose, Lawrence Soosai-Nathan, Hilde Eileen Nafstad, Alejandro Castro Solano, Tamás Martos, Ingrid Brdar, Antonella Delle Fave
Přispěvatelé: Universidade do Minho
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
adulthood
Social connectedness
media_common.quotation_subject
lcsh:BF1-990
Social Sciences
050109 social psychology
INNER HARMONY
ADULTHOOD
Eudaimonia
LAY DEFINITIONS
050105 experimental psychology
Interconnectedness
CULTURE
CIENCIAS SOCIALES
lay definitions
INTERCONNECTEDNESS
RELATIONSHIPS
Psicologia [Ciências Sociais]
Psychology
happiness
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory
INTERAÇÃO INTERPESSOAL
purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1 [https]
General Psychology
Original Research
media_common
HAPPINESS
Harmony (color)
purl.org/becyt/ford/5 [https]
4. Education
inner harmony
05 social sciences
Life satisfaction
Psicología
culture
lcsh:Psychology
Happiness
cross-cultural
harmony
interpersonal relationships
Conceptual framework
Ciências Sociais::Psicologia
relationships
interconnectedness
Social psychology
Zdroj: CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
instacron:CONICET
Lawrence Soosai-Nathan
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
instacron:RCAAP
Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 7 (2016)
Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
instacron:USP
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00030/full
Popis: In well-being research the term happiness is often used as synonymous with life satisfaction. However, little is known about lay people's understanding of happiness. Building on the available literature, this study explored lay definitions of happiness across nations and cultural dimensions, analyzing their components and relationship with participants' demographic features. Participants were 2799 adults (age range = 30-60, 50% women) living in urban areas of Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Hungary, India, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, and United States. They completed the Eudaimonic and Hedonic Happiness Investigation (EHHI), reporting, among other information, their own definition of happiness. Answers comprised definitions referring to a broad range of life domains, covering both the contextual-social sphere and the psychological sphere. Across countries and with little variation by age and gender, inner harmony predominated among psychological definitions, and family and social relationships among contextual definitions. Whereas relationships are widely acknowledged as basic happiness components, inner harmony is substantially neglected. Nevertheless, its cross-national primacy, together with relations, is consistent with the view of an ontological interconnectedness characterizing living systems, shared by several conceptual frameworks across disciplines and cultures. At the methodological level, these findings suggest the potential of a bottom-up, mixed method approach to contextualize psychological dimensions within culture and lay understanding.
Financial support was provided to some of the authors by the University of Rijeka, Croatia (project 13.04.1.3.05); the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA; grant PD 105685) the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand; the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway; the National Research Foundation of South Africa (CPRR 13092547210-91557 and RN60571-NRF IPRR-UID 85649); the Department of Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, USA; the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science through national funds and co-financed by FEDER under the PT2020; UNAM-PAPIIT IG300415 Mexico (UID/PSI/01662/2013).
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Databáze: OpenAIRE
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