A Cross-cultural Study On the Association Between Societal Conditions and the Idealization of Happiness

IF 2.5 3区社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Applied Research in Quality of Life Pub Date : 2025-06-05 DOI:10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w

Xiaobin Lou, Brian W. Haas, John M. Zelenski, Cai Xing, Vivian L. Vignoles, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Wijnand A. P. van Tilburg, Yukiko Uchida, Julien Teyssier, Claudio Torres, Chien-Ru Sun, Stanislava Stoyanova, Maria Stogianni, Iva Poláčková Šolcová, David Sirlopú, Ursula Serdarevich, Heyla A. Selim, Ruta Sargautyte, Espen Røysamb, Vladyslav Romashov, Muhammad Rizwan, Zoran Pavlovid, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Joonha Park, Yvette van Osch, Ayu Okvitawanli, Azar Nadi, Martin Nader, Nur Fariza Mustaffa, Elke Murdock, Oriana Mosca, Tamara Mohoric, Pablo Eduardo Barrientos Marroquin, Fridanna Maricchiolo, Arina Malyonova, Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha, Vivian Miu-Chi Lun, Xinhui Liu, Liman Man Wai Li, J. Hannah Lee, Anna Kwiatkowska, Nicole Kronberger, Olga Kostoula, Aleksandra Kosiarczyk, Agata Kocimska-Zych, Lucie Klůzová Kračmárová, Natalia Kascakova, İdil Işık, Eric Raymond Igou, David O. Igbokwe, Diana Boer, Alin Gavreliuc, Ragna B. Garðarsdóttir, Vladimer Gamsakhurdia, Márta Fülöp, Carla Sofia Esteves, Alejandra Dominguez-Espinosa, Patrick Denoux, Michael Harris Bond, Arno Baltin, Douglas Arevalo, Lily Appoh, Isabelle Albert, Charity S. Akotia, Mladen Adamovic, Kuba Krys

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Abstract

Although most people aspire to be happy, the extent to which people pursue or idealize experiencing high levels of happiness does differ according to sociocultural context. This study was designed to elucidate which societal and cultural indicators are the most conducive to fostering high levels of happiness idealization. To accomplish this goal, we measured levels of happiness idealization for 11,170 participants residing in 43 different countries. We utilized machine learning (random forests approach) to examine how well an array of 18 different societal and cultural-level indicators were associated with country-level happiness idealization. We found robust and consistent evidence that greater cultural religiosity was associated with reduced idealization of happiness across four different types of happiness, including life satisfaction and interdependent happiness. These findings demonstrated that how much happiness is pursued varies considerably according to sociocultural context and highlights the role of cultural religiosity in shaping how people think about high levels of happiness.

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社会条件与幸福理想化关系的跨文化研究

尽管大多数人都渴望幸福，但人们追求或理想化体验高水平幸福的程度确实因社会文化背景而异。这项研究旨在阐明哪些社会和文化指标最有利于培养高水平的幸福理想化。为了实现这一目标，我们测量了居住在43个不同国家的11,170名参与者的幸福理想化水平。我们利用机器学习（随机森林方法）来检验18种不同的社会和文化水平指标与国家幸福理想化的关系。我们发现强有力且一致的证据表明，在四种不同类型的幸福中，包括生活满意度和相互依赖的幸福，更大的文化宗教信仰与更低的幸福理想化程度有关。这些发现表明，追求幸福的程度因社会文化背景而异，并强调了文化宗教信仰在塑造人们对高水平幸福的看法方面的作用。

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Applied Research in Quality of Life SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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6.40

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期刊介绍： The aim of this journal is to publish conceptual, methodological and empirical papers dealing with quality-of-life studies in the applied areas of the natural and social sciences. As the official journal of the ISQOLS, it is designed to attract papers that have direct implications for, or impact on practical applications of research on the quality-of-life. We welcome papers crafted from interdisciplinary, inter-professional and international perspectives. This research should guide decision making in a variety of professions, industries, nonprofit, and government sectors, including healthcare, travel and tourism, marketing, corporate management, community planning, social work, public administration, and human resource management. The goal is to help decision makers apply performance measures and outcome assessment techniques based on concepts such as well-being, human satisfaction, human development, happiness, wellness and quality-of-life. The Editorial Review Board is divided into specific sections indicating the broad scope of practice covered by the journal. The section editors are distinguished scholars from many countries across the globe.