Conceptions of happiness and life satisfaction: An exploratory study in 14 national groups

Mohsen Joshanloo; Muhammad Rizwan; Imran Ahmed Khilji; Maria Cristina Ferreira; Wai Ching Poon; Suresh Sundaram; Lok Sang Ho; Victoria Wai Lan Yeung; Gyuseog Han; Jaechang Bae; Melikşah Demir; Mustapha Achoui; Joyce S. Pang; Ding Yu Jiang; Sanne M.A. Lamers; Yücel Turan; Zarina Kh Lepshokova; Tatiana Panyusheva; Amerkhanova Natalia; Ryosuke Asano; Tasuku Igarashi; Saori Tsukamoto

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.06.065

Conceptions of happiness and life satisfaction: An exploratory study in 14 national groups

Mohsen Joshanloo
, Muhammad Rizwan
, Imran Ahmed Khilji
, Maria Cristina Ferreira
, Wai Ching Poon
, Suresh Sundaram
, Lok Sang Ho
, Victoria Wai Lan Yeung
, Gyuseog Han
, Jaechang Bae
, Melikşah Demir
, Mustapha Achoui
, Joyce S. Pang
, Ding Yu Jiang
, Sanne M.A. Lamers
, Yücel Turan
, Zarina Kh Lepshokova
, Tatiana Panyusheva
, Amerkhanova Natalia
, Ryosuke Asano

Tasuku Igarashi, Saori Tsukamoto

Psychological Sciences

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Abstract

This study examined the relationship between 4 conceptions of happiness and life satisfaction in a sample of 2715 university students across 14 national groups. The 4 conceptions were self-transcendence, self-directed hedonism, conservation, and self-enhancement, which emerged from a principal component analysis of a 19-item scale generated for the purpose of the present study. Results of multi-level modeling showed that self-transcendence and conservation predicted life satisfaction positively and significantly. In addition, we found that self-directed hedonism and self-enhancement interacted in their effects on life satisfaction.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	145-148
Number of pages	4
Journal	Personality and Individual Differences
Volume	102
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.06.065
State	Published - Nov 1 2016

Keywords

Conception of happiness
Culture
Happiness
Life satisfaction
Values

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Psychology

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Joshanloo, M., Rizwan, M., Khilji, I. A., Ferreira, M. C., Poon, W. C., Sundaram, S., Ho, L. S., Yeung, V. W. L., Han, G., Bae, J., Demir, M., Achoui, M., Pang, J. S., Jiang, D. Y., Lamers, S. M. A., Turan, Y., Lepshokova, Z. K., Panyusheva, T., Natalia, A., ... Tsukamoto, S. (2016). Conceptions of happiness and life satisfaction: An exploratory study in 14 national groups. Personality and Individual Differences, 102, 145-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.06.065

Joshanloo, M, Rizwan, M, Khilji, IA, Ferreira, MC, Poon, WC, Sundaram, S, Ho, LS, Yeung, VWL, Han, G, Bae, J, Demir, M, Achoui, M, Pang, JS, Jiang, DY, Lamers, SMA, Turan, Y, Lepshokova, ZK, Panyusheva, T, Natalia, A, Asano, R, Igarashi, T & Tsukamoto, S 2016, 'Conceptions of happiness and life satisfaction: An exploratory study in 14 national groups', Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 102, pp. 145-148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.06.065

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