@article{3059845,
    title = "Personal Life Satisfaction as a Measure of Societal Happiness is an Individualistic Presumption: Evidence from Fifty Countries",
    author = "Krys, K. and Park, J. and Kocimska-Zych, A. and Kosiarczyk, A. and Selim, H.A. and Wojtczuk-Turek, A. and Haas, B.W. and Uchida, Y. and Torres, C. and Capaldi, C.A. and Bond, M.H. and Zelenski, J.M. and Lun, V.M.-C. and Maricchiolo, F. and Vauclair, C.-M. and Poláčková Šolcová, I. and Sirlopú, D. and Xing, C. and Vignoles, V.L. and van Tilburg, W.A.P. and Teyssier, J. and Sun, C.-R. and Stoyanova, S. and Serdarevich, U. and Schwarz, B. and Sargautyte, R. and Røysamb, E. and Romashov, V. and Rizwan, M. and Pavlović, Z. and Pavlopoulos, V. and van Osch, Y. and Okvitawanli, A. and Nadi, A. and Nader, M. and Nur Fariza, M. and Mosca, O. and Mohorić, T. and Barrientos, P.E. and Malyonova, A. and Liu, X. and Lee, J.H. and Kwiatkowska, A. and Kronberger, N. and Klůzová Kračmárová, L. and Kascakova, N. and Işık, İ. and Igou, E.R. and Igbokwe, D.O. and Hanke-Boer, D. and Gavreliuc, A. and Garðarsdóttir, R.B. and Fülöp, M. and Gamsakhurdia, V. and Esteves, C.S. and Domínguez-Espinosa, A. and Denoux, P. and Charkviani, S. and Baltin, A. and Mira, A.D.M. and Appoh, L. and Albert, I. and Akotia, C.S. and Adamovic, M.",
    journal = "Journal of Happiness Studies",
    year = "2021",
    volume = "22",
    number = "5",
    pages = "2197-2214",
    publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media B.V.",
    issn = "1389-4978",
    doi = "10.1007/s10902-020-00311-y",
    keywords = "adult;  article;  controlled study;  female;  happiness;  human;  human experiment;  individuality;  life satisfaction;  major clinical study;  male;  reasoning;  wellbeing",
    abstract = "Numerous studies document that societal happiness is correlated with individualism, but the nature of this phenomenon remains understudied. In the current paper, we address this gap and test the reasoning that individualism correlates with societal happiness because the most common measure of societal happiness (i.e., country-level aggregates of personal life satisfaction) is individualism-themed. With the data collected from 13,009 participants across fifty countries, we compare associations of four types of happiness (out of which three are more collectivism-themed than personal life satisfaction) with two different measures of individualism. We replicated previous findings by demonstrating that societal happiness measured as country-level aggregate of personal life satisfaction is correlated with individualism. Importantly though, we also found that the country-level aggregates of the collectivism-themed measures of happiness do not tend to be significantly correlated with individualism. Implications for happiness studies and for policy makers are signaled. © 2020, The Author(s)."
}