A cross-cultural experimental approach to the contribution of health, religion and personal relations to subjective satisfaction with life as a whole

• Peter Theuns ^[1] ; Barbara Baran ^[1] ; Rebecca Van Vaerenbergh ^[1] ; Greet Hellenbosch ^[3] ; Habib Tiliouine ^[2]
  1. [1] Vrije Universiteit Brussel

     Vrije Universiteit Brussel

     Arrondissement Brussel-Hoofdstad, Bélgica

     
  2. [2] University of Oran

     University of Oran

     Argelia

     
  3. [3] Plantijn Hogeschool, Belgium

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• Localización: Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental, ISSN-e 1576-8597, ISSN 0211-2159, Vol. 33, Nº 3, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Applications of Functional Measurement in Psychology), págs. 591-608
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In cross-cultural research on quality of life, researchers must deal with the fundamental incomparability of subjective wellbeing assessments across cultural groups. This incompatibility most probably results from an identification problem: cultural groups most likely differ in both objective achievements in different life domains as well as in the appraisal thereof.

    Information Integration Theory provides a framework that allows to better understand the composition of the concept of satisfaction with life as a whole across culturally different groups. In three web-based experiments, using Percentile Stimulus Metrics, it was studied how students in Algeria, Belgium and Poland integrate information on various life domains into an appraisal of satisfaction with life as a whole. It was found that different integration models coexist in the 3 studied groups, and that the prevalence of these strategies differs across groups.

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