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Cross-Cultural Difference in Life Satisfaction Judgments

QIU Lin1,2, ZHENG Xue2   

  1. 1. School of Business Administration, Southchina University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640;
    2. School of Educational Science, Southchina Normal University, Guangzhou 510631
  • Online:2007-01-15 Published:2007-01-15

Abstract: Based on a big sample of 8,007 subjects from 36 countries,this study tested the cross-cultural differences in life satisfaction judgments.The results of HLM analyses show that(1)positive affect experience,self-esteem and social relation satisfaction positively predicted life satisfaction,and negative affect experience was a negative predictor;(2) significant variability among nations was found in terms of their average life satisfaction and the correlation between affect, self-esteem,social relation satisfaction and life satisfaction;(3)individualism-collectivism explained the variability across nations of life satisfaction and its correlation with self-esteem,but it didn't made any contribution to explain the relationship between affect experience or social relation satisfaction and life satisfaction.

Key words: life satisfaction, affect experience, self-esteem, social relation, culture

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