Cultural values and happiness: an East-West dialogue.
Happiness as a state of mind may be universal, but its meaning is complex and ambiguous. The authors directly examined the relationships between cultural values and experiences of happiness in 2 samples, by using a measurement of values derived from Chinese culture and a measurement of subjective we...
| Published in: | Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 141; no. 4; pp. 477 - 494 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
August 2001
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