A Cross-cultural Study On the Association Between Societal Conditions and the Idealization of Happiness

Xiaobin Lou; Brian W. Haas; John M. Zelenski; Cai Xing; Vivian L. Vignoles; Christin Melanie Vauclair; Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg; Yukiko Uchida; Julien Teyssier; Claudio Torres; Chien Ru Sun; Stanislava Stoyanova; Maria Stogianni; Iva Poláčková Šolcová; David Sirlopú; Ursula Serdarevich; Heyla A. Selim; Ruta Sargautyte; Espen Røysamb; Vladyslav Romashov; Muhammad Rizwan; Zoran Pavlovid; Vassilis Pavlopoulos; Joonha Park; Yvette van Osch; Ayu Okvitawanli; Azar Nadi; Martin Nader; Nur Fariza Mustaffa; Elke Murdock; Oriana Mosca; Tamara Mohoric; Pablo Eduardo Barrientos Marroquin; Fridanna Maricchiolo; Arina Malyonova; Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha; Vivian Miu Chi Lun; Xinhui Liu; Liman Man Wai Li; J. Hannah Lee; Anna Kwiatkowska; Nicole Kronberger; Olga Kostoula; Aleksandra Kosiarczyk; Agata Kocimska-Zych; Lucie Klůzová Kračmárová; Natalia Kascakova; İdil Işık; Eric Raymond Igou; David O. Igbokwe; et al.

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A Cross-cultural Study On the Association Between Societal Conditions and the Idealization of Happiness

Xiaobin Lou^*
, Brian W. Haas
, John M. Zelenski
, Cai Xing
, Vivian L. Vignoles
, Christin Melanie Vauclair
, Wijnand A.P. van Tilburg
, Yukiko Uchida
, Julien Teyssier
, Claudio Torres
, Chien Ru Sun
, Stanislava Stoyanova
, Maria Stogianni
, Iva Poláčková Šolcová
, David Sirlopú
, Ursula Serdarevich
, Heyla A. Selim
, Ruta Sargautyte
, Espen Røysamb
, Vladyslav Romashov

Muhammad Rizwan, Zoran Pavlovid, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Joonha Park, Yvette van Osch, Ayu Okvitawanli, Azar Nadi, Martin Nader, Nur Fariza Mustaffa, Elke Murdock, Oriana Mosca, Tamara Mohoric, Pablo Eduardo Barrientos Marroquin, Fridanna Maricchiolo, Arina Malyonova, Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha, Vivian Miu Chi Lun, Xinhui Liu, Liman Man Wai Li, J. Hannah Lee, Anna Kwiatkowska, Nicole Kronberger, Olga Kostoula, Aleksandra Kosiarczyk, Agata Kocimska-Zych, Lucie Klůzová Kračmárová, Natalia Kascakova, İdil Işık, Eric Raymond Igou, David O. Igbokwe, et al.

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Social Psychology, Human Resource Development and Adult Education

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1289-1313
Number of pages	25
Journal	Applied Research in Quality of Life
Volume	20
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w
Publication status	Published - Jun 2025

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503 Educational Sciences
501021 Social psychology
503009 Adult education
503005 Vocational education
501 Psychology
501029 Economic psychology
509017 Social studies of science
501002 Applied psychology
605004 Cultural studies
501006 Experimental psychology

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Sustainable Development: Responsible Technologies and Management
Digital Transformation

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Lou, X., Haas, B. W., Zelenski, J. M., Xing, C., Vignoles, V. L., Vauclair, C. M., van Tilburg, W. A. P., Uchida, Y., Teyssier, J., Torres, C., Sun, C. R., Stoyanova, S., Stogianni, M., Šolcová, I. P., Sirlopú, D., Serdarevich, U., Selim, H. A., Sargautyte, R., Røysamb, E., ... et al. (2025). A Cross-cultural Study On the Association Between Societal Conditions and the Idealization of Happiness. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 20(3), 1289-1313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-025-10462-w

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