Self, the Hyphen between Culture and Subjective Well-being

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(From the chapter) The self stands at the junction of subjective well-being (SWB) and culture. The 1st section of this chapter deals with the issue concerning how the list of Western psychological virtues associated with the individualized self model appears to have far less importance in determining the SWB of East Asian cultural members. The 2nd section discusses the important role played by the self in the judgment of SWB. For instance, individualist cultures that advocate the primacy of individual experience chronically direct the attention of their members to their internal psychological attributes. In contrast, in East Asian cultures where salient cultural tasks constitute others, individuals are constantly drawn to external social cues. The basis of life satisfaction judgment seems to differ between these 2 cultures, depending on what types of information are chronically accessible to the individual. Finally, the chapter concludes by addressing an issue that is attracting increasing attention among cross-cultural researchers. The chapter proposes that cultural differences in mean levels of SWB and positive self-judgments could partly arise from the diverging ways in which North Americans and East Asians evaluate themselves. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2007 APA )

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Suh, E. M. (2018). Self, the Hyphen between Culture and Subjective Well-being. In Culture and Subjective Well-Being (pp. 63–86). The MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/2242.003.0008

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