Self-construals predict personal life satisfaction with different strengths across societal contexts differing in national wealth and religious heritage

• Autor(a) principal: Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á.
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Vignoles, V. L., Bond, M.H., Adamovic, M., Akotia, C. S., Albert, I., Appoh, L., Baltin, A., Barrientos, P.B., Denoux, P., Dominguez-Espinosa, A., Esteves, C., Kračmárová, L. K., Kocimska-Zych, A., Kosiarczyk, A., Kostoula, O., Kronberger, N., Kuba, K., Kwiatkowska, A., Lee, J. H., Vauclair, C.-M.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/30918
• topic: Multicomponent self-construal; Religious heritage; National wealth; Economic inequality; Personal life satisfaction

We explore to what extent previously observed pan-cultural association between dimensions of self-construal and personal life satisfaction (PLS) may be moderated by three national-contextual variables: national wealth, economic inequality, and religious heritage. The results showed that Self-reliance (vs. dependence on others) predicted PLS positively in poorer countries but negatively in richer countries. Connectedness to others (vs. self-containment) predicted PLS more strongly in Protestant-heritage countries. Self-expression (vs. harmony) predicted PLS more weakly (and non-significantly) in Muslim-heritage countries. In contrast, previously reported associations of self-direction (vs. reception-to-influence), consistency (vs. variability), and decontextualized (vs. contextualized) self-understanding with personal life satisfaction were not significantly moderated by these aspects of societal context. These results show the importance of considering the impact of national religious and economic context.