Self-construals and valuation Of Different Types of Happiness

By adopting resolution 65/309 in 2011, the United Nations recognized happiness as a fundamental human goal and a universal human aspiration. Cross-cultural psychological research reveals though that happiness is defined, experienced, and valued differently across cultures. If happiness is to be adopted as a valid measure of societal functioning, the diverse ways in which people think about, desire, pursue, and experience happiness needs to be reflected. In the current presentation we show how valuation of four different types of happiness (i.e., life satisfaction vs interdependent happiness measured separately for individuals and for families) links to prevalence of different types of self-construals described by Vignoles and collaborators (2016). This study is based on the Happiness Meanders study data.