Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

International Journal of Intercultural Relations Pub Date : 2025-07-08 DOI:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102227

Mateusz Olechowski , Maciej R. Górski , Mohsen Joshanloo , M. Azhar Hussain , Arkadiusz Wasiel , Victoria Wai Lan Yeung , Michael Harris Bond , Brian W. Haas , Farida Guemaz , Mahmoud Boussena , Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez , Nuha Iter , Olha Vlasenko , Vivian Miu-Chi Lun , Liman Man Wai Li , Nur Amali Aminnuddin , İdil Işık , Dieynaba Gabriel Ndiaye , Márta Fülöp , David Igbokwe , Kuba Krys

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Abstract

Previous research indicates that the significance of love varies considerably across cultures. In the present study, we introduce an often-overlooked cultural factor – religiosity – to explore its influence on the relationship between being in love and five dimensions of subjective well-being. We conducted two cross-cultural studies with 31,608 participants from 117 samples across 83 societies. Our findings reveal that, in more religious cultures, being in love is a weaker predictor of well-being compared to more secular cultures in four out of six models. These findings indicate that national context influences the relative importance of various emotions and experiences for well-being, underscoring the need to account for cultural context in research on love.

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文化宗教虔诚度调节恋爱与主观幸福感之间的关系

先前的研究表明，在不同的文化中，爱的意义差异很大。在本研究中，我们引入了一个经常被忽视的文化因素——宗教信仰——来探讨其对恋爱与主观幸福感五个维度之间关系的影响。我们对来自83个社会117个样本的31608名参与者进行了两项跨文化研究。我们的研究结果显示，在六个模型中，有四个模型显示，在宗教信仰较多的文化中，与世俗文化相比，恋爱对幸福的预测作用较弱。这些发现表明，国家背景影响着各种情绪和经历对幸福的相对重要性，强调了在爱情研究中考虑文化背景的必要性。

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122

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