title: Culture, personality, and subjective well-being: integrating process models of life satisfaction.
abstract: The authors examined the interplay of personality and cultural factors in the prediction of the affective (hedonic balance) and the cognitive (life satisfaction) components of subjective well-being (SWB). They predicted that the influence of personality on life satisfaction is mediated by hedonic balance and that the relation between hedonic balance and life satisfaction is moderated by culture. As a consequence, they predicted that the influence of personality on life satisfaction is also moderated by culture. Participants from 2 individualistic cultures (United States, Germany) and 3 collectivistic cultures (Japan, Mexico, Ghana) completed measures of Extraversion, Neuroticism, hedonic balance, and life satisfaction. As predicted, Extraversion and Neuroticism influenced hedonic balance to the same degree in all cultures, and hedonic balance was a stronger predictor of life satisfaction in individualistic than in collectivistic cultures. The influence of Extraversion and Neuroticism on life satisfaction was largely mediated by hedonic balance. The results suggest that the influence of personality on the emotional component of SWB is pancultural, whereas the influence of personality on the cognitive component of SWB is moderated by culture.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. uli.schimmack@utoronto.ca
authors: Ulrich
authors: U
authors: Schimmack
authors: Phanikiran
authors: P
authors: Radhakrishnan
authors: Shigehiro
authors: S
authors: Oishi
authors: Vivian
authors: V
authors: Dzokoto
authors: Stephan
authors: S
authors: Ahadi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003469:Culture; D004644:Emotions; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011788:Quality of Life; D012649:Self Concept