Culture and Well-Being: A Research Agenda Designed to Improve Cross-Cultural Research Involving the Life Satisfaction Construct

2017 ◽  
pp. 203-221
Author(s):  
Dong-Jin Lee ◽  
Grace B. Yu ◽  
Joseph Sirgy
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Cross Cultural Research

Moving Beyond Conventional Wisdom

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 450-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina B. Gibson ◽  
Dana M. McDaniel
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Cross Cultural Research ◽  
Behavior Theories ◽  
Do So

In this article, we discuss the importance of a cross-cultural approach to organizational behavior. To do so, we illustrate how cross-cultural research in the past two decades has enabled us to reconceptualize constructs, revise models, and extend boundary conditions in traditional organizational behavior theories. We focus on three domains—teams, leadership, and conflict—and review cross-cultural empirical evidence that has extended several theories in each of these domains. We support the claim that even well-established organizational behavior theories vary in the extent to which they may be applied unilaterally across cultures, thus identifying the critical need to advance these theories via a cross-cultural research agenda.

scholarly journals Happy just because. A cross-cultural study on subjective wellbeing in three Indigenous societies

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0251551
Author(s):  
Victoria Reyes-García ◽  
Sandrine Gallois ◽  
Aili Pyhälä ◽  
Isabel Díaz-Reviriego ◽  
Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
The Tropics

While cross-cultural research on subjective well-being and its multiple drivers is growing, the study of happiness among Indigenous peoples continues to be under-represented in the literature. In this work, we measure life satisfaction through open-ended questionnaires to explore levels and drivers of subjective well-being among 474 adults in three Indigenous societies across the tropics: the Tsimane’ in Bolivian lowland Amazonia, the Baka in southeastern Cameroon, and the Punan in Indonesian Borneo. We found that life satisfaction levels in the three studied societies are slightly above neutral, suggesting that most people in the sample consider themselves as moderately happy. We also found that respondents provided explanations mostly when their satisfaction with life was negative, as if moderate happiness was the normal state and explanations were only needed when reporting a different life satisfaction level due to some exceptionally good or bad occurrence. Finally, we also found that issues related to health and–to a lesser extent–social life were the more prominent explanations for life satisfaction. Our research not only highlights the importance to understand, appreciate and respect Indigenous peoples’ own perspectives and insights on subjective well-being, but also suggests that the greatest gains in subjective well-being might be achieved by alleviating the factors that tend to make people unhappy.

Can Happiness be Created in Rituals?

Paragrana ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Kellermann
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
New Family ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Family Constellation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Cross Cultural Research

Abstract This article refers to an ethnographical study within the framework of a cross-cultural research project in Germany and Japan. It focuses on the ritual staging and performing of family happiness within two countries: Christmas in Germany and oshogatsu, the turn of the year, in Japan. Happiness is hereby conceived as a particular form of well-being that is (intended) to be evoked during the yearly reunion of the family. Through ritual practice, the family members (re)confirm their family bonds and create their specific idea of family happiness. In the German family outlined below, Christmas Day in Germany happens to be the first Christmas Celebration in the new family constellation for everyone, and the family members are about to perform their future life plan. In Japan, oshogatsu relies on experiences and memories within the particular family constellation which allow an emotional proximity between four generations. The analytical approach reveals the social cultural impact on emotions and their performative and amplifying potential in rituals

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