Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations
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International audience ; Abstract Happiness is a valuable experience, and societies want their citizens to be happy. Although this societal commitment seems laudable, overly emphasizing positivity (versus negativity) may create an unattainable emotion norm that ironically compromises individual well-being. In this multi-national study (40 countries; 7443 participants), we investigate how societal pressure to be happy and not sad predicts emotional, cognitive and clinical indicators of well-being around the world, and examine how these relations differ as a function of countries’ national happiness levels (collected from the World Happiness Report). Although detrimental well-being associations manifest for an average country, the strength of these relations varies across countries. People’s felt societal pressure to be happy and not sad is particularly linked to poor well-being in countries with a higher World Happiness Index. Although the cross-sectional nature of our work prohibits causal conclusions, our findings highlight the correlational link between social emotion valuation and individual well-being, and suggest that high national happiness levels may have downsides for some.
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Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Dejonckheere, Egon ; Rhee, Joshua, J. ; Baguma, Peter, K. ; Barry, Oumar ; Becker, Maja ; Bilewicz, Michał ; Castelain, Thomas ; Costantini, Giulio ; Dimdins, Girts ; Espinosa, Agustín ; Finchilescu, Gillian ; Friese, Malte ; Gastardo-Conaco, Maria Cecilia ; Gómez, Angel ; González, Roberto ; Goto, Nobuhiko ; Halama, Peter ; Hurtado-Parrado, Camilo ; Jiga-Boy, Gabriela ; Karl, Johannes ; Novak, Lindsay ; Ausmees, Liisi ; Loughnan, Steve ; Mastor, Khairul ; Mclatchie, Neil ; Onyishi, Ike ; Rizwan, Muhammad ; Schaller, Mark ; Serafimovska, Eleonora ; Suh, Eunkook ; Swann, William ; Tong, Eddie ; Torres, Ana ; Turner, Rhiannon ; Vinogradov, Alexander ; Wang, Zhechen ; Yeung, Victoria Wai-Lan ; Amiot, Catherine ; Boonyasiriwat, Watcharaporn ; Peker, Müjde ; van Lange, Paul ; Vauclair, Christin-Melanie ; Kuppens, Peter ; Bastian, Brock ; Tilburg University Netherlands ; Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) ; University of Melbourne ; Makerere University Kampala, Ouganda (MAK) ; Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar Sénégal (UCAD) ; Cognition, langues, langage, ergonomie (CLLE) ; École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) ; Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J) ; Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Bordeaux Montaigne (UBM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Toulouse Mind & Brain Institut (TMBI) ; Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J) ; Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) ; Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J) ; Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) ; Université de Toulouse (UT) ; University of Warsaw (UW) ; Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) ; Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB) ; University of Latvia (LU) ; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú = Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) ; University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg (WITS) ; Saarland University Saarbrücken ; University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman) ; Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) ; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) ; Kyoto Notre Dame University ; Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS) ; Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz = Konrad Lorenz University Foundation (FUKL) ; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam (VU) ; Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) |
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Zeitschrift: | ISSN: 2045-2322, 2022 |
Veröffentlichung: | HAL CCSD ; Nature Publishing Group, 2022 |
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DOI: | 10.1038/s41598-021-04262-z |
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