Krys, KubaHaas, Brian W.Igou, Eric RaymondKosiarczyk, AleksandraKocimska-Bortnowska, AgataKwiatkowska, AnnaLun, Vivian Miu ChiMaricchiolo, FridannaPark, JoonhaŠolcová, Iva PoláčkováSirlopú, DavidUchida, YukikoVauclair, Christin MelanieVignoles, Vivian L.Zelenski, John M.Adamovic, MladenAkotia, Charity S.Albert, IsabelleAppoh, LilyMira, D. M.ArévaloBaltin, ArnoDenoux, PatrickDomínguez-Espinosa, AlejandraEsteves, Carla SofiaGamsakhurdia, VladimerFülöp, MártaGarðarsdóttir, Ragna B.Gavreliuc, AlinBoer, DianaIgbokwe, David O.Işık, İdilKascakova, NataliaKlůzová Kráčmarová, LucieKosakowska-Berezecka, NataszaKostoula, OlgaKronberger, NicoleLee, J. HannahLiu, XinhuiŁużniak-Piecha, MagdalenaMalyonova, ArinaBarrientos, Pablo EduardoMohorić, TamaraMosca, OrianaMurdock, ElkeMustaffa, Nur FarizaNader, MartinNadi, AzarOkvitawanli, Ayuvan Osch, YvettePavlopoulos, VassilisPavlović, ZoranRizwan, MuhammadRomashov, VladyslavRøysamb, EspenSargautyte, RutaSchwarz, BeateSelim, Heyla A.Serdarevich, UrsulaStogianni, MariaSun, Chien RuTeyssier, Julienvan Tilburg, Wijnand A.P.Torres, ClaudioXing, CaiBond, Michael Harris2023-01-042023-01-042023-02-011389-4978http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/39717How can one conclude that well-being is higher in country A than country B, when well-being is being measured according to the way people in country A think about well-being? We address this issue by proposing a new culturally sensitive method to comparing societal levels of well-being. We support our reasoning with data on life satisfaction and interdependent happiness focusing on individual and family, collected mostly from students, across forty-nine countries. We demonstrate that the relative idealization of the two types of well-being varies across cultural contexts and are associated with culturally different models of selfhood. Furthermore, we show that rankings of societal well-being based on life satisfaction tend to underestimate the contribution from interdependent happiness. We introduce a new culturally sensitive method for calculating societal well-being, and examine its construct validity by testing for associations with the experience of emotions and with individualism-collectivism. This new culturally sensitive approach represents a slight, yet important improvement in measuring well-being.engCultural sensitivityCultureHappinessInterdependent happinessLife satisfactionSelf-construalsSelfhoodsWell-beingjournal article10.1007/s10902-022-00588-185144906316000905786000001