Life Satisfaction in Malawi

Hinks, Timothy; Davies, Simon

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-2700-7_19

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“…In Malawi (particularly in rural areas), people regard successful individuals with suspicion. This is because of the prevalence of the cultural belief that success and happiness may have been achieved through unfair means, such as witchcraft (Hinks & Davies, 2012). This can lead to the social exclusion of the successful person or even their being forced to leave the village.…”

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Cross-Cultural Validation of Fear of Happiness Scale Across 14 National Groups

Joshanloo

Lepshokova

Panyusheva

et al. 2013

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

106

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A survey of the cultural notions related to happiness and the existing empirical evidence indicate that some individuals endorse the belief that happiness, particularly an immoderate degree of it, should be avoided. These beliefs mainly involve the general notion that happiness may lead to bad things happening. Using multigroup confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel modeling, this study investigates the measurement invariance, cross-level isomorphism, predictive validity, and nomological network of the fear of happiness scale across 14 nations. The results show that this scale has good statistical properties at both individual and cultural levels. The findings also indicate that this scale has the potential to add to the knowledge about how people conceive of, and experience, happiness across cultures.

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