Culture shapes whether the pursuit of happiness predicts higher or lower well-being

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1053-1062

  Ford, Brett Q ^a   Dmitrieva, Julia O ^b   Heller, Daniel ^c   Chentsova Dutton, Yulia ^d   Grossmann, Igor ^e   Tamir, Maya ^f   Uchida, Yukiko ^g   Koopmann Holm, Birgit ^h   Floerke, Victoria A ⁱ   Uhrig, Meike ^j   Bokhan, Tatiana ^k   Mauss, Iris B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^k TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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Author keywords

Culture; Happiness; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SATISFACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; RUSSIA; SOCIAL VALUES; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940932389     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000108     Document Type: Article

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