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; Meliksah 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, Meliksah Demir, Mustapha Achoui, Joyce S. Pang, Ding-Yu Jiang, Sanne M.A. Lamers, Yücel Turan, Zarina Kh. Lepshokova, Tatiana Panyusheva, Amerkhanova Natalia, Ryosuke AsanoTasuku Igarashi, Saori Tsukamoto

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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
Pages (from-to)	145-148
Journal	Personality and individual differences
Volume	102
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.06.065
Publication status	Published - 2016

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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

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