Cultural Moderators of the Influence of Environmental Affordances and Provisions on Children’s Subjective Well-Being

Reyes, Melissa Lopez

doi:10.1007/s12187-017-9520-5

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“…From the moderator approach, researchers had proposed two groups of moderators, national differences and personal factors, to help reconcile the perplexed association between income and SWB. National differences include socioeconomic contexts such as popularity density, income inequality, and social mobility [ 15 , 16 ], cultural values such as individualism versus collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, and masculinity versus femininity [ 17 , 18 , 19 ], and political factors [ 20 , 21 ], among others. In terms of personal factors, researchers have found that the direction and strength of the link between income and SWB differ by gender [ 22 ], age [ 23 ], personality [ 24 ], and social class memberships [ 13 ].…”

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Roles of Indulgence versus Restraint Culture and Ability to Savor the Moment in the Link between Income and Subjective Well-Being

Wang

Cui

et al. 2022

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Over the past few decades, various academic fields have reported contradictory findings regarding whether income is positively or negatively associated with subjective well-being (SWB). To reconcile the inconclusive observations, researchers tend to use various mediators and moderators that could explain why income is more strongly associated with SWB for certain groups of people and why income could be negatively associated with SWB for other groups. This study endeavored to first test additional mediation roles of financial satisfaction and a sense of control in the link between income and three related yet distinct measures of SWB: life satisfaction, happiness, and emotional well-being (EWB), at both cross-national and individual levels. We further investigated the direct and moderating impacts of national difference in Indulgence versus Restraint (IVR) cultural orientations over two mediating mechanisms (income → financial satisfaction → SWB; income → a sense of control → SWB) using data from 49,097 participants in the 2017–2020 World Values Survey. Additionally, we conducted a moderated mediation analysis of individual difference in ability to savor the moment (ASM) for these two mediating mechanisms based on surveys with 796 respondents from China. Analyses at both national level and individual level confirmed the partial mediating roles of financial satisfaction and a sense of control. We further find a positive, direct impact of IVR on SWB such that people in more indulgence cultures report a higher SWB than those in more restraint cultures. The mediating effects of financial satisfaction were found to be weaker in more indulgence cultures than in more restraint ones, while the mediating effects of a sense of control remain the same. Finally, we find that individuals’ ASM does not only directly lead to a higher SWB, but also amplifies the mediation impact of financial satisfaction in the link between income and life satisfaction and in the link between income and EWB. Implications of these findings are offered for public policy makers, employers, and citizens, as well as researchers from different fields.

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Roles of Indulgence versus Restraint Culture and Ability to Savor the Moment in the Link between Income and Subjective Well-Being

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Cui

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“…In the literature, indulgent culture has mixed effects on student self-efficacy. On one side, an indulgent culture can negatively impact student self-efficacy through low expectations and a lack of challenge ( Reyes, 2019 ). Students need opportunities to push themselves beyond their comfort zones to develop a sense of mastery and confidence in their abilities ( Zhang et al, 2018 ).…”

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What cultural values determine student self-efficacy? An empirical study for 42 countries and economies

Jin

Xia

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Self-efficacy is a vital personal characteristic for student success. However, the challenge of cross-cultural comparisons remains as scalar invariance is hard to be satisfied. Also, it is unclear how to contextually understand student self-efficacy in light of cultural values in different countries. This study implements a novel alignment optimization method to rank the latent means of student self-efficacy of 308,849 students in 11,574 schools across 42 countries and economies that participated in the 2018 Program in International Student Assessment. We then used classification and regression trees to classified countries with differential latent means of student self-efficacy into groups according to Hofstede’s six cultural dimensions theory. The results of the alignment method recovered that Albania, Colombia, and Peru had students with the highest mean self-efficacy, while Slovak Republic, Moscow Region (RUS), and Lebanon had the lowest. Moreover, the CART analysis indicated a low student self-efficacy for countries presenting three features: (1) extremely high power distance; (2) restraint; and (3) collectivism. These findings theoretically highlighted the significance of cultural values in shaping student self-efficacy across countries and practically provided concrete suggestions to educators on which countries to emulate such that student self-efficacy could be promoted and informed educators in secondary education institutes on the international expansion of academic exchanges.

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“…For example, Steckermeier (2019) underlines how explicitly considering children's agency with respect to their safety contributes to a better understanding of their subjective well-being. On the other hand, López Reyes (2019) analyses the interactions between hypothetical individuallevel predictors and country-level moderators. The results of this study are generally consistent with the vision of well-being as a psychological construct that changes with the material and cultural environment of children.…”

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The Capability Approach and Child Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review

Serrano

Moral-Espín

2022

Child Ind Res

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Child well-being is a dynamic concept currently under revision due to its complexity and the need to incorporate traditionally overlooked perspectives. An essential aspect of this revision is considering children as active agents in defining the concept itself and incorporating new elements that enrich the more traditional economics-based and adult-centred conceptualisation. In these regards, the capability approach (CA) provides valuable theoretical support for an expanded understanding of child well-being. Therefore, this article aims to offer a systematised review of the literature from the last two decades that uses this approach in examining children and childhood. To do so, the authors examined the main international databases and conducted relevant additional searches, identifying 63 journals that have published capabilitarian articles over the last two decades. Our findings show that most publications concentrate on recent years, with an expansion of the methodologies used and the contexts addressed. Although education seems to be one of the primary interests of this literature, there has also been an increasing range of children’s realities and topics observed that we summarised in 10 categories. Between then, we dig deeper into the subsegment that specifically addresses the category of child well-being. Our review reveals that quantitative approaches and European contexts are predominant within these papers, and we analyse how they concern different spaces, well-being dimensions and intersectionalities.

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Cultural Moderators of the Influence of Environmental Affordances and Provisions on Children’s Subjective Well-Being

Cited by 11 publications

References 55 publications

Roles of Indulgence versus Restraint Culture and Ability to Savor the Moment in the Link between Income and Subjective Well-Being

Roles of Indulgence versus Restraint Culture and Ability to Savor the Moment in the Link between Income and Subjective Well-Being

What cultural values determine student self-efficacy? An empirical study for 42 countries and economies

The Capability Approach and Child Well-Being: A Systematic Literature Review

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