Personal values and life domain satisfaction predict global life satisfaction differently across cultures

Bibliographic Data

ID2937089
AuthorsIolanda Costa Galinha (0000-0002-3777-999X, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and Centro de Investigação em Psicologia – CIP UAL/UALG, Lisbon, Portugal, corresponding author), Oishi (0000-0002-4185-960X, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States), Shigehiro Oishi, Cicero Roberto Pereira (0000-0003-3406-3985, University of Lisbon), Cícero Pereira (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, ICS, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal), Derrick Wirtz (0000-0003-4009-0875, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Year2023
Volume40
Issue10
Pages3319-3343
Publication date2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social and Personal Relationships (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0265-4075 • E-ISSN: 1460-3608
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02654075231173157
OpenAlexW4379279909
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited51

The study tests two competing theoretical perspectives on the relationship between personal values and global life satisfaction, and the mediation of life domain satisfaction, contributing with novel empirical data across three countries and continents: United States ( N = 497), North America; Mozambique ( N = 544), Africa; and Portugal ( N = 541), Europe. Structural equation modelling showed that personal values and life domain satisfaction associated in both ways differently and similarly with global life satisfaction across countries. Global life satisfaction significantly associated with benevolence in the three samples; with stimulation in the U.S. and Mozambique, but not in Portugal; with tradition in Mozambique and Portugal, but not in the US; and with achievement only in Portugal. The two theoretical perspectives received partial support from the data, suggesting that each may explain part of the phenomena. Life domain satisfaction mediated the relationship between personal values and global life satisfaction. However, the person-environment congruency values perspective received the most support from the data, showing that personal values differ in how they predict global life satisfaction across samples. The differences found suggest a possible connection with individualism-collectivism and the developmental level in each country, but also with other dominant cultural values such as uncertainty avoidance and indulgence

Collectivism · Cultural values · Individualism · Indulgence · Life satisfaction · Mediation · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Structural equation modeling · Subjective well-being · World Values Survey · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Studies · Mathematics · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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