Krys, KubaHaas, Brian W.Igou, Eric RaymondKosiarczyk, AleksandraKocimska-Bortnowska, AgataKwiatkowska, AnnaLun, Vivian Miu-ChiMaricchiolo, FridannaPark, JoonhaPoláčková Šolcová, IvaSirlopú, DavidUchida, YukikoVauclair, Christin-MelanieVignoles, Vivian L.Zelenski, John M.Adamovic, MladenAkotia, Charity S.Albert, IsabelleAppoh, LilyArévalo Mira, D. M.Baltin, ArnoDenoux, PatrickDomínguez-Espinosa, AlejandraEsteves, Carla SofiaGamsakhurdia, VladimerFülöp, MártaGarðarsdóttir, Ragna B.Gavreliuc, AlinBoer, DianaIgbokwe, David O.Işık, İdilKascakova, NataliaKlůzová Kráčmarová, LucieKosakowska-Berezecka, NataszaKostoula, OlgaKronberger, NicoleLee, J. HannahLiu, XinhuiŁużniak-Piecha, MagdalenaMalyonova, ArinaBarrientos, Pablo EduardoMohorić, TamaraMosca, OrianaMurdock, ElkeMustaffa, Nur FarizaNader, MartinNadi, AzarOkvitawanli, Ayuvan Osch, YvettePavlopoulos, VassilisPavlović, ZoranRizwan, MuhammadRomashov, VladyslavRøysamb, EspenSargautyte, RutaSchwarz, BeateSelim, Heyla A.Serdarevich, UrsulaStogianni, MariaSun, Chien-RuTeyssier, Julienvan Tilburg, Wijnand A. P.Torres, ClaudioXing, CaiBond, Michael Harris2025-01-302025-01-302023Krys K, Haas BW, Igou ER, et al. Introduction to a Culturally Sensitive Measure of Well-Being: Combining Life Satisfaction and Interdependent Happiness Across 49 Different Cultures. J Happiness Stud. 2023;24(2):607-627. doi:10.1007/s10902-022-00588-1https://hdl.handle.net/1805/45600How can one conclude that well-being is higher in country A than country B, when well-being is being measured according to the way people in country A think about well-being? We address this issue by proposing a new culturally sensitive method to comparing societal levels of well-being. We support our reasoning with data on life satisfaction and interdependent happiness focusing on individual and family, collected mostly from students, across forty-nine countries. We demonstrate that the relative idealization of the two types of well-being varies across cultural contexts and are associated with culturally different models of selfhood. Furthermore, we show that rankings of societal well-being based on life satisfaction tend to underestimate the contribution from interdependent happiness. We introduce a new culturally sensitive method for calculating societal well-being, and examine its construct validity by testing for associations with the experience of emotions and with individualism-collectivism. This new culturally sensitive approach represents a slight, yet important improvement in measuring well-being.en-USAttribution 4.0 InternationalCultural sensitivityCultureHappinessInterdependent happinessLife satisfactionSelf-construalsSelfhoodsWell-beingArticle