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ArticleScientific reports2022

Perceiving societal pressure to be happy is linked to poor well-being, especially in happy nations.

Egon Dejonckheere, Joshua J Rhee, Peter K Baguma, Oumar Barry, Maja Becker, Michał Bilewicz, Thomas Castelain, Giulio Costantini, Girts Dimdins, Agustín Espinosa and 34 more

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Egon DejonckheereDepartment of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Tilburg University, Warandelaan 2, 5037, AB Tilburg, The Netherlands. E.H.Dejonckheere@tilburguniversity.edu.
Joshua J RheeMelbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Peter K BagumaSchool of Psychology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
Oumar BarryDepartment of Psychology, University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal.
Maja BeckerCLLE, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France.
Michał BilewiczFaculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Warszawa, Poland.
Thomas CastelainInstituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Pedro Montes de Oca, Costa Rica.
Giulio CostantiniDepartment of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Girts DimdinsDepartment of Psychology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
Agustín EspinosaDepartment of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru.
Gillian FinchilescuDepartment of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Malte FrieseDepartment of Psychology, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.
Maria Cecilia Gastardo-ConacoDepartment of Psychology, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines.
Angel GómezDepartment of Social and Organizational Psychology, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain.
Roberto GonzálezEscuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Nobuhiko GotoDepartment of Psychology, Kyoto Notre Dame University, Kyoto, Japan.
Peter HalamaCenter of Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Camilo Hurtado-ParradoDepartment of Psychology, Konrad Lorenz University and Troy University, Bogotá, Colombia.
Gabriela M Jiga-BoySchool of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
Johannes A KarlSchool of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Lindsay NovakDepartment of Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA.
Liisi AusmeesInstitute of Psychology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Steve LoughnanDepartment of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Khairul A MastorSchool of Liberal Studies, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia.
Neil McLatchiePsychology Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Ike E OnyishiDepartment of Psychology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.
Muhammad RizwanDepartment of Psychology, University of Haripur, Haripur, KPK, Pakistan.
Mark SchallerDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Eleonora SerafimovskaInstitute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research, University of Ss Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, North Macedonia.
Eunkook M SuhDepartment of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.
William B SwannDepartment of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin, USA.
Eddie M W TongDepartment of Psychology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore.
Ana TorresDepartment of Psychology, Federal University of Paraíba, Paraíba, Brazil.
Rhiannon N TurnerSchool of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
Alexander VinogradovDepartment of Psychology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Zhechen WangSchool of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Victoria Wai-Lan YeungDepartment of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong.
Catherine E AmiotDepartment of Psychology, Université du Québec À Montréal, Montreal, Canada.
Watcharaporn BoonyasiriwatFaculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
Müjde PekerDepartment of Psychology, MEF University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Paul A M Van LangeDepartment of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Christin-Melanie VauclairCentre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), CIS-IUL, Lisboa, Portugal.
Peter KuppensFaculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, Leuven, Belgium.
Brock BastianMelbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Funding

Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies ANID/FONDAP 15130009Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek 1210621NInterdisciplinary Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies ANID/FONDAP 15110006Onderzoeksraad, KU Leuven C14/19/054
6 · The paper itself

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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HappinessPeer InfluencePerceptionCross-Sectional StudiesHumans

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PMID35177625
PMCPMC8854619

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