Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations
Egon Dejonckheere
(1, 2)
,
Joshua J. Rhee
(3)
,
Peter K. Baguma
(4)
,
Oumar Barry
(5)
,
Maja Becker
(6)
,
Michał Bilewicz
(7)
,
Thomas Castelain
(8)
,
Giulio Costantini
(9)
,
Girts Dimdins
(10)
,
Agustín Espinosa
(11)
,
Gillian Finchilescu
(12)
,
Malte Friese
(13)
,
Maria Cecilia Gastardo-Conaco
(14)
,
Angel Gómez
(15)
,
Roberto González
(16)
,
Nobuhiko Goto
(17)
,
Peter Halama
(18)
,
Camilo Hurtado-Parrado
(19)
,
Gabriela Jiga-Boy
,
Johannes Karl
,
Lindsay Novak
,
Liisi Ausmees
,
Steve Loughnan
,
Khairul Mastor
,
Neil Mclatchie
,
Ike Onyishi
,
Muhammad Rizwan
,
Mark Schaller
,
Eleonora Serafimovska
,
Eunkook Suh
,
William Swann
,
Eddie Tong
,
Ana Torres
,
Rhiannon Turner
,
Alexander Vinogradov
,
Zhechen Wang
,
Victoria Wai-Lan Yeung
,
Catherine Amiot
,
Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat
,
Müjde Peker
,
Paul van Lange
(20)
,
Christin-Melanie Vauclair
(21)
,
Peter Kuppens
(2)
,
Brock Bastian
(3)
1
Tilburg University [Netherlands]
2 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
3 University of Melbourne
4 MAK - Makerere University [Kampala, Ouganda]
5 UCAD - Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar [Sénégal]
6 CLLE - Cognition, langues, langage, ergonomie
7 UW - University of Warsaw
8 UCR - Universidad de Costa Rica
9 UNIMIB - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca
10 LU - University of Latvia
11 PUCP - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú = Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
12 WITS - University of the Witwatersrand [Johannesburg]
13 Saarland University [Saarbrücken]
14 UP Diliman - University of the Philippines Diliman
15 UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
16 UC - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
17 Kyoto Notre Dame University
18 SAS - Slovak Academy of Sciences
19 FUKL - Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz = Konrad Lorenz University Foundation
20 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
21 ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
2 KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
3 University of Melbourne
4 MAK - Makerere University [Kampala, Ouganda]
5 UCAD - Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar [Sénégal]
6 CLLE - Cognition, langues, langage, ergonomie
7 UW - University of Warsaw
8 UCR - Universidad de Costa Rica
9 UNIMIB - Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca = University of Milano-Bicocca
10 LU - University of Latvia
11 PUCP - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú = Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
12 WITS - University of the Witwatersrand [Johannesburg]
13 Saarland University [Saarbrücken]
14 UP Diliman - University of the Philippines Diliman
15 UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
16 UC - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
17 Kyoto Notre Dame University
18 SAS - Slovak Academy of Sciences
19 FUKL - Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz = Konrad Lorenz University Foundation
20 VU - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Amsterdam]
21 ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Maja Becker
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Gabriela Jiga-Boy
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Johannes Karl
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Lindsay Novak
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Liisi Ausmees
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Steve Loughnan
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Khairul Mastor
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Neil Mclatchie
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Ike Onyishi
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Muhammad Rizwan
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Mark Schaller
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Eleonora Serafimovska
- Fonction : Auteur
Eunkook Suh
- Fonction : Auteur
William Swann
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Eddie Tong
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Ana Torres
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Rhiannon Turner
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Alexander Vinogradov
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Zhechen Wang
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Victoria Wai-Lan Yeung
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Catherine Amiot
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Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat
- Fonction : Auteur
Müjde Peker
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Paul van Lange
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- ORCID : 0000-0001-7774-6984
Brock Bastian
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- ORCID : 0000-0003-4619-3322
Résumé
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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