Psicología Social

CULTURE, PERSONALITY, AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING: INTEGRATING PROCESS MODELS OF LIFE SATISFACTION.

Schimmack, Ulrich; Radhakrishnan, Phanikiran; Oishi, Shigehiro; Dzokoto, Vivian; Ahadi, StephanJournal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 82(4), Apr 2002, 582-593. Doi: 10.1037/0022 3514.82.4.582



Abstract

The authors examined the interplay of personality and cultural factors inthe prediction of the affective (hedonic balance) and the cognitive (life satisfaction) components of subjective well-being (SWB). They predicted that the influence of personality on life satisfactionis mediated by hedonic balance and that the relation between hedonic balance and life satisfaction is moderated by culture. As a consequence, they predicted that the influence of personality on lifesatisfaction is also moderated by culture. Participants from 2 individualistic cultures (United States, Germany) and 3 collectivistic cultures (Japan, Mexico, Ghana) completed measures ofExtraversion, Neuroticism, hedonic balance, and life satisfaction. As predicted, Extraversion and Neuroticism influenced hedonic balance to the same degree in all cultures, and hedonic balance was a strongerpredictor of life satisfaction in individualistic than in collectivistic cultures. The influence of Extraversion and Neuroticism on life satisfaction was largely mediated by hedonic balance. Theresults suggest that the influence of personality on the emotional component of SWB is pancultural, whereas the influence of personality on the cognitive component of SWB is moderated by culture. (PsycINFODatabase Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).





CULTURA, LA PERSONALIDAD Y BIENESTAR SUBJETIVO: INTEGRACIÓN DE MODELOS DE PROCESOS DE SATISFACCIÓN DE VIDA.

Los autores examinaron lainteracción de los factores de personalidad y culturales en la predicción de lo afectivo (balance hedónico) y los cognitivos (satisfacción con la vida) de los componentes del bienestar subjetivo...