Family First: Evidence of Consistency and Variation in the Value of Family versus Personal Happiness across 49 Different Cultures
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Krys, KubaYeung, June Chun
Haas, Brian W.
van Osch, Yvette
Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra
Kocimska-Zych, Agata
Torres, Claudio
Selim, Heyla A.
Zelenski, John M.
Bond, Michael Harris
Park, Joonha
Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi
Maricchiolo, Fridanna
Vauclair, Christin-Melanie
Poláčková Šolcová, Iva
Diaz, David Ricardo Sirlopu
Xing, Cai
Vignoles, Vivian L.
van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P.
Teyssier, Julien
Sun, Chien-Ru
Serdarevich, Ursula
Schwarz, Beate
Sargautyte, Ruta
Røysamb, Espen
Romashov, Vladyslav
Rizwan, Muhammad
Pavlović, Zoran
Pavlopoulos, Vassilis
Okvitawanli, Ayu
Nadi, Azar
Nader, Martin
Mustaffa, Nur Fariza
Murdock, Elke
Mosca, Oriana
Mohorić, Tamara
Barrientos Marroquin, Pablo Eduardo
Malyonova, Arina
Liu, Xinhui
Lee, J. Hannah
Kwiatkowska, Anna
Kronberger, Nicole
Kračmárová, Lucie Klůzová
Kascakova, Natalia
Işık, İdil
Igou, Eric R.
Igbokwe, David O.
Hanke-Boer, Diana
Gavreliuc, Alin
Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B.
Fülöp, Márta
Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer
Esteves, Carla Sofia
Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra
Denoux, Patrick
Charkviani, Salome
Baltin, Arno
Arevalo, Douglas
Appoh, Lily
Akotia, Charity
Adamovic, Mladen
Uchida, Yukiko
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People care about their own well-being, but also about the well-being of their families. It is
currently however unknown how much people tend to value their own and their family’s wellbeing. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness
across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size
(N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries (N = 49), We found that the strength of the
idealization of family over personal happiness preference was small (average Cohen’s ds = .20
with country levels varying from -.02 to almost .48), but ubiquitous, i.e., direction presented in
98% of the studied countries, 73-75% with statistical significance and < 2% variance across
countries. We also found that the size of this effect did vary somewhat across cultural contexts.
In Latin American cultures highest on relational mobility, the idealization of family over
personal happiness was very small (average Cohen’...s ds for Latin America = .15 and .18), while
in Confucian Asia cultures lowest on relational mobility, this effect was closer to medium (ds >
.40 and .30). Importantly, we did not find strong support for traditional theories in cross-cultural
psychology that associate collectivism with greater prioritization of the family versus the
individual; country level individualism-collectivism was not associated with variation in the
idealization of family versus individual happiness. Our findings indicate that no matter how
much various populists abuse the argument of “protecting family life” to disrupt emancipation,
family happiness seems to be a pan-culturally phenomenon. Family well-being is a key
ingredient of social fabric across the world, and should be acknowledged by psychology and
well-being researchers, and by progressive movements too.
Keywords:
family / happiness / well-being / interdependent happiness / life satisfaction / culture / relational mobilitySource:
Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2023, 54, 3, 323-339Funding / projects:
- The Polish National Science Centre under grant 2020/38/E/ HS6/00357
- The Hungarian OTKA under grant K-135963
- The Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development --CNPq under grant 301298/2018-1
- The Czech Science Foundation CSF under grant 20-08583S, by the NPO, Systemic Risk Institute, LX22NPO510, EU - Next Generation EU and the Ministry of Higher Education and Science RF FZEW-2020-0005
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Psihologija / PsychologyTY - JOUR AU - Krys, Kuba AU - Yeung, June Chun AU - Haas, Brian W. AU - van Osch, Yvette AU - Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra AU - Kocimska-Zych, Agata AU - Torres, Claudio AU - Selim, Heyla A. AU - Zelenski, John M. AU - Bond, Michael Harris AU - Park, Joonha AU - Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi AU - Maricchiolo, Fridanna AU - Vauclair, Christin-Melanie AU - Poláčková Šolcová, Iva AU - Diaz, David Ricardo Sirlopu AU - Xing, Cai AU - Vignoles, Vivian L. AU - van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P. AU - Teyssier, Julien AU - Sun, Chien-Ru AU - Serdarevich, Ursula AU - Schwarz, Beate AU - Sargautyte, Ruta AU - Røysamb, Espen AU - Romashov, Vladyslav AU - Rizwan, Muhammad AU - Pavlović, Zoran AU - Pavlopoulos, Vassilis AU - Okvitawanli, Ayu AU - Nadi, Azar AU - Nader, Martin AU - Mustaffa, Nur Fariza AU - Murdock, Elke AU - Mosca, Oriana AU - Mohorić, Tamara AU - Barrientos Marroquin, Pablo Eduardo AU - Malyonova, Arina AU - Liu, Xinhui AU - Lee, J. Hannah AU - Kwiatkowska, Anna AU - Kronberger, Nicole AU - Kračmárová, Lucie Klůzová AU - Kascakova, Natalia AU - Işık, İdil AU - Igou, Eric R. AU - Igbokwe, David O. AU - Hanke-Boer, Diana AU - Gavreliuc, Alin AU - Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B. AU - Fülöp, Márta AU - Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer AU - Esteves, Carla Sofia AU - Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra AU - Denoux, Patrick AU - Charkviani, Salome AU - Baltin, Arno AU - Arevalo, Douglas AU - Appoh, Lily AU - Akotia, Charity AU - Adamovic, Mladen AU - Uchida, Yukiko PY - 2023 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4303 AB - People care about their own well-being, but also about the well-being of their families. It is currently however unknown how much people tend to value their own and their family’s wellbeing. A recent study documented that people value family happiness over personal happiness across four cultures. In this study, we sought to replicate this finding across a larger sample size (N = 12,819) and a greater number of countries (N = 49), We found that the strength of the idealization of family over personal happiness preference was small (average Cohen’s ds = .20 with country levels varying from -.02 to almost .48), but ubiquitous, i.e., direction presented in 98% of the studied countries, 73-75% with statistical significance and < 2% variance across countries. We also found that the size of this effect did vary somewhat across cultural contexts. In Latin American cultures highest on relational mobility, the idealization of family over personal happiness was very small (average Cohen’s ds for Latin America = .15 and .18), while in Confucian Asia cultures lowest on relational mobility, this effect was closer to medium (ds > .40 and .30). Importantly, we did not find strong support for traditional theories in cross-cultural psychology that associate collectivism with greater prioritization of the family versus the individual; country level individualism-collectivism was not associated with variation in the idealization of family versus individual happiness. Our findings indicate that no matter how much various populists abuse the argument of “protecting family life” to disrupt emancipation, family happiness seems to be a pan-culturally phenomenon. Family well-being is a key ingredient of social fabric across the world, and should be acknowledged by psychology and well-being researchers, and by progressive movements too. T2 - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology T1 - Family First: Evidence of Consistency and Variation in the Value of Family versus Personal Happiness across 49 Different Cultures EP - 339 IS - 3 SP - 323 VL - 54 DO - 10.1177/00220221221134711 ER -
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Krys, Kuba, Yeung, June Chun, Haas, Brian W., van Osch, Yvette, Kosiarczyk, Aleksandra, Kocimska-Zych, Agata, Torres, Claudio, Selim, Heyla A., Zelenski, John M., Bond, Michael Harris, Park, Joonha, Lun, Vivian Miu-Chi, Maricchiolo, Fridanna, Vauclair, Christin-Melanie, Poláčková Šolcová, Iva, Diaz, David Ricardo Sirlopu, Xing, Cai, Vignoles, Vivian L., van Tilburg, Wijnand A. P., Teyssier, Julien, Sun, Chien-Ru, Serdarevich, Ursula, Schwarz, Beate, Sargautyte, Ruta, Røysamb, Espen, Romashov, Vladyslav, Rizwan, Muhammad, Pavlović, Zoran, Pavlopoulos, Vassilis, Okvitawanli, Ayu, Nadi, Azar, Nader, Martin, Mustaffa, Nur Fariza, Murdock, Elke, Mosca, Oriana, Mohorić, Tamara, Barrientos Marroquin, Pablo Eduardo, Malyonova, Arina, Liu, Xinhui, Lee, J. Hannah, Kwiatkowska, Anna, Kronberger, Nicole, Kračmárová, Lucie Klůzová, Kascakova, Natalia, Işık, İdil, Igou, Eric R., Igbokwe, David O., Hanke-Boer, Diana, Gavreliuc, Alin, Garðarsdóttir, Ragna B., Fülöp, Márta, Gamsakhurdia, Vladimer, Esteves, Carla Sofia, Domínguez-Espinosa, Alejandra, Denoux, Patrick, Charkviani, Salome, Baltin, Arno, Arevalo, Douglas, Appoh, Lily, Akotia, Charity, Adamovic, Mladen, Uchida, Yukiko, "Family First: Evidence of Consistency and Variation in the Value of Family versus Personal Happiness across 49 Different Cultures" in Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 54, no. 3 (2023):323-339, https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221221134711 . .