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The Association of Daily Hassles and Uplifts with Family and Life Satisfaction: Does Cultural Orientation make a Difference?
Author(s) -
Lavee Yoav,
Ben-Ari Adital
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/s10464-007-9146-8
Subject(s) - collectivism , psychology , life satisfaction , structural equation modeling , individualism , health psychology , social psychology , cultural group selection , association (psychology) , subjective well being , individualistic culture , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , public health , ethnic group , happiness , sociology , medicine , statistics , mathematics , nursing , political science , anthropology , law , psychotherapist
The study examined similarities and differences between people having individualist and collectivist cultural orientations in terms of what they perceive as stressful and uplifting experiences in their daily lives, and the relation between daily experiences and family and life satisfaction. Data were collected from two representative community samples (697 Jews and 303 Arabs). Each sample was grouped into individualist and collectivist cultural orientations. The two cultural orientation groups differed with respect to the appraisal of positive and negative daily experiences. A structural equation modeling (SEM) multi‐group analysis indicated a similar factor structure for hassles and uplifts in both groups. However, the two groups differed in the effects of positive and negative daily occurrences on family and life satisfaction.