What is the good life and how do individuals attain it? Meaning of happiness, its assessment, and pathways

IF 2.1 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL Asian Journal of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2023-09-19 DOI:10.1111/ajsp.12581

Palakshi Sarmah, Damodar Suar, Priyadarshi Patnaik

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This research investigates the contents, antecedents, and mediators of happiness in the Indian state of Assam. The first study examines the content and meanings of happiness in Assamese culture. Posing exploratory questions, a thematic analysis of the narrations of 53 participants revealed 18 themes, grouped into intrinsic or content and extrinsic or context factors of happiness. The content and meanings of happiness embrace a blend of ancient Indian, Eastern, and Western concepts. Based on these results, a culture-sensitive happiness scale is constructed in the second study. It further tests whether life skills mediate the relationship between character strength and happiness. Data from 503 Assamese participants showed that the one-factor model of happiness, combining all 14 items of intrinsic and extrinsic factors, is acceptable. It has measurement invariance across male and female genders and high- and low-income groups. To ensure criterion-related validity, the happiness of people is associated with their well-being profiles. Adjusting the confounding effects of age and sex of participants, it is observed that character strengths do not promote happiness but pass through life skills fully to promote happiness.

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什么是美好生活，个人如何实现美好生活？幸福的含义、评估和途径

本研究调查了印度阿萨姆邦幸福的内容、前因和中介。第一项研究探讨了阿萨姆文化中幸福的内容和含义。通过提出探索性问题，对 53 名参与者的叙述进行主题分析，发现了 18 个主题，分为幸福的内在或内容因素和外在或背景因素。幸福的内容和含义融合了古印度、东方和西方的概念。基于这些结果，第二项研究构建了一个文化敏感型幸福量表。研究还进一步检验了生活技能是否能调节性格力量与幸福之间的关系。来自 503 名阿萨姆参与者的数据显示，将所有 14 个内在和外在因素项目结合起来的单因素幸福模型是可以接受的。该模型在男女性别、高收入群体和低收入群体之间具有测量不变性。为确保标准相关有效性，人们的幸福感与他们的幸福感特征相关联。在调整了参与者年龄和性别的混杂效应后，可以发现性格优势并不能促进幸福感，但通过生活技能却能充分促进幸福感。

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Asian Journal of Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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期刊介绍： Asian Journal of Social Psychology publishes empirical papers and major reviews on any topic in social psychology and personality, and on topics in other areas of basic and applied psychology that highlight the role of social psychological concepts and theories. The journal coverage also includes all aspects of social processes such as development, cognition, emotions, personality, health and well-being, in the sociocultural context of organisations, schools, communities, social networks, and virtual groups. The journal encourages interdisciplinary integration with social sciences, life sciences, engineering sciences, and the humanities. The journal positively encourages submissions with Asian content and/or Asian authors but welcomes high-quality submissions from any part of the world.