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Culture and Happiness: A Taiwan-Britain Comparison
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Regarded as a "basic building block, a value in terms of which other values are justified" (Braithwaite & Law, 1985), happiness may be considered universal, but its meaning remains complex and ambiguous.
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Cultural values can be a major force constructing the conception of happiness and consequently constricting its subjective experiences. This study directly examined the relationships between cultural values and experiences of happiness in two different nations, using a measurement of values derived from the bountiful legacy of the Chinese culture, and a measurement of SWB balanced for sources of happiness salient in the East and the West.
Such an effort was hoped to rectify the de-centring concern prevailing in the existing literature of cross-cultural research on happiness. 439 college students (230 males and 209 females) from a typical Eastern culture (Taiwan) and 344 students (161 males and 183 females) from a typical Western one (Britain) took part in the study. Results indicated that although the general patterns were similar in the two samples, relationships between values and happiness were stronger in Taiwan than in Britain.
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In hierarchical regression, cultural values could predict happiness even after personality traits were controlled among the Chinese, whereas predictive powers of cultural values were weaker among the British. Further analyses revealed that the effects of "Social integration" and "Human heartedness" as cultural values on happiness were culture-dependent, whereas that of "Confucian work dynamism" was culture-general. There were also consistent lateral differences on happiness between the two cultures, as well as certain gender differences.
These results were discussed in the framework of culture as a shaping force of human ideas and experiences.
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