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Culture, personality, and subjective well-being: integrating process models of life satisfaction.
Full Abstract
The authors examined the interplay of personality and cultural factors in the prediction of the affective (hedonic balance) and the cognitive (life satisfaction) components of subjective well-being (SWB). They predicted that the influence of personality on life satisfaction is mediated by hedonic balance and that the relation between hedonic balance and life satisfaction is moderated by culture. As a consequence, they predicted that the influence of personality on life satisfaction is also moderated by culture. Participants from 2 individualistic cultures (United States, Germany) and 3 collectivistic cultures (Japan, Mexico, Ghana) completed measures of Extraversion, Neuroticism, hedonic balance, and life satisfaction. As predicted, Extraversion and Neuroticism influenced hedonic balance to the same degree in all cultures, and hedonic balance was a stronger predictor of life satisfaction in individualistic than in collectivistic cultures. The influence of Extraversion and Neuroticism on life satisfaction was largely mediated by hedonic balance. The results suggest that the influence of personality on the emotional component of SWB is pancultural, whereas the influence of personality on the cognitive component of SWB is moderated by culture.
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Author information
Author/s: Schimmack, Ulrich (U); Radhakrishnan, Phanikiran (P); Oishi, Shigehiro (S); Dzokoto, Vivian (V); Ahadi, Stephan (S);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. uli.schimmack(-atsign-)utoronto.ca
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article
Journal: Journal of personality and social psychology (J Pers Soc Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Apr; vol 82 (issue 4) : pp 582-93
Dates: Created 2002/05/09; Completed 2002/10/02; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 11999925, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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