Cross-Cultural Study of Happiness

Short Description: The goal of this project is to explore how culture-specific meanings of happiness give rise to differences both across cultures (Germany and Japanese) and within cultures.

Methodological Details: Several self-report items on happiness, e.g., “Taking all things together, how happy would you say you will be in the future, say about five years from now?”

Available Papers:

Rohrer, Julia M., David Richter, Martin Brümmer, Gert G. Wagner, and Stefan C. Schmukle. 2018. Successfully Striving for Happiness: Socially Engaged Pursuits Predict Increases in Life Satisfaction. Psychological Science 29 (8), 1291-1298. (https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618761660)

Find the proposal for the module here

Contact	Year	Respondents	Dataset	Variables	Availability	Field	Method
Yukiko Uchida, Kyoto University Kokoro Research Center [E-Mail], Gisela Trommsdorff, University of Konstanz [E-Mail]	2014	~4500	inno	hapi1, im_hap, oecdaff4, oecdaff3, oecdaff1, oecdaff5, hapi2, oecdaff6, oecdaff2	04/2017	Psychology	Survey items