TY - JOUR
TI - Societal emotional environments and cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction: A forty-nine country study
AU - Krys, K.
AU - Yeung, J.C.
AU - Capaldi, C.A.
AU - Lun, V.M.-C.
AU - Torres, C.
AU - van Tilburg, W.A.P.
AU - Bond, M.H.
AU - Zelenski, J.M.
AU - Haas, B.W.
AU - Park, J.
AU - Maricchiolo, F.
AU - Vauclair, C.-M.
AU - Kosiarczyk, A.
AU - Kocimska-Zych, A.
AU - Kwiatkowska, A.
AU - Adamovic, M.
AU - Pavlopoulos, V.
AU - Fülöp, M.
AU - Sirlopu, D.
AU - Okvitawanli, A.
AU - Boer, D.
AU - Teyssier, J.
AU - Malyonova, A.
AU - Gavreliuc, A.
AU - Uchida, Y.
AU - Serdarevich, U.
AU - Akotia, C.
AU - Appoh, L.
AU - Arévalo Mira, D.M.
AU - Baltin, A.
AU - Denoux, P.
AU - Dominguez-Espinosa, A.
AU - Esteves, C.S.
AU - Gamsakhurdia, V.
AU - Garðarsdóttir, R.B.
AU - Igbokwe, D.O.
AU - Igou, E.R.
AU - Işık, İ.
AU - Kascakova, N.
AU - Klůzová Kračmárová, L.
AU - Kronberger, N.
AU - Lee, J.H.
AU - Liu, X.
AU - Barrientos, P.E.
AU - Mohorić, T.
AU - Mustaffa, N.F.
AU - Mosca, O.
AU - Nader, M.
AU - Nadi, A.
AU - van Osch, Y.
AU - Pavlović, Z.
AU - Poláčková Šolcová, I.
AU - Rizwan, M.
AU - Romashov, V.
AU - Røysamb, E.
AU - Sargautyte, R.
AU - Schwarz, B.
AU - Selecká, L.
AU - Selim, H.A.
AU - Stogianni, M.
AU - Sun, C.-R.
AU - Xing, C.
AU - Vignoles, V.L.
JO - The Journal of Positive Psychology
PY - 2022
VL - 17
TODO - 1
SP - 117-130
PB - Routledge
SN - 1743-9760, 1743-9779
TODO - 10.1080/17439760.2020.1858332
TODO - adult;  article;  climate;  controlled study;  emotion regulation;  female;  happiness;  human;  human experiment;  life satisfaction;  major clinical study;  male;  multilevel analysis;  South and Central America;  wellbeing
TODO - In this paper, we introduce the concept of ‘societal emotional environment’: the emotional climate of a society (operationalized as the degree to which positive and negative emotions are expressed in a society). Using data collected from 12,888 participants across 49 countries, we show how societal emotional environments vary across countries and cultural clusters, and we consider the potential importance of these differences for well-being. Multilevel analyses supported a ‘double-edged sword’ model of negative emotion expression, where expression of negative emotions predicted higher life satisfaction for the expresser but lower life satisfaction for society. In contrast, partial support was found for higher societal life satisfaction in positive societal emotional environments. Our study highlights the potential utility and importance of distinguishing between positive and negative emotion expression, and adopting both individual and societal perspectives in well-being research. Individual pathways to happiness may not necessarily promote the happiness of others. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
ER -