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The Dynamics of Daily Events and Well-Being Across Cultures: When Less Is More

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Culture and Well-Being

Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series ((SINS,volume 38))

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The authors examined cultural and individual differences in the relation between daily events and daily satisfaction. In a preliminary study, they established cross-cultural equivalence of 50 daily events. In the main study, participants in the United States, Korea, and Japan completed daily surveys on the 50 events and daily satisfaction for 21 days. The multilevel random coefficient model analyses showed that (a) the within-person association between positive events and daily satisfaction was significantly stronger among Asian American, Korean, and Japanese participants than among European American participants and (b) the within-person association between positive events and daily satisfaction was significantly weaker among individuals high in global life satisfaction than among those low in global life satisfaction. The findings demonstrate a weaker effect of positive events on daily well-being among individuals and cultures high in global well-being.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400, USA

    Shigehiro Oishi

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61820, USA

    Ed Diener

  3. Department of Psychology, California State University, East Bay, USA

    Dong-Won Choi

  4. Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ 08628-0718, USA

    Chu Kim-Prieto

  5. Department of Psychology, Seoul National University, Korea

    Incheol Choi

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Oishi, S., Diener, E., Choi, DW., Kim-Prieto, C., Choi, I. (2009). The Dynamics of Daily Events and Well-Being Across Cultures: When Less Is More. In: Diener, E. (eds) Culture and Well-Being. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2352-0_8

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