Culture as a Moderator of Overall Life Satisfaction – Life Facet Satisfaction Relationships |
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Authors: | Mallard Alison GC Lance Charles E Michalos Alex C |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602-3013, USA
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Abstract: | The purposes of this study were to (a) provide additional competitive tests between three models of relationships between overall and life facet satisfaction Bottom-Up (BU), Top-Down (TD), and Bidirectional (BD) models], and (b) explore whether culture moderates these relationships. Models were tested using data collected as part of Michalos' (1991) global study of student well-being from samples of college students in 32 different countries. The BD model received strongest support in 29 of the 32 samples (countries); the TD model was most strongly supported in the remaining 3 samples. Cluster analyses of samples in which the BD model was supported indicated a 7-cluster solution of reasonably homogeneous sets of OLS-LFS relationships. However, clusters were not easily interpretable in terms of evident cultural commonalities. We conclude that (a) a BD model describes OLS-LFS relationships globally, (b) and although culture appears to moderate OLS-LFS relationships, (c) additional research is needed to explain why. |
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