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Happiness in Korea: Who is Happy and When?

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2011, v.25 no.2, pp.143-166
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2011.25.2.008


& (2011). Happiness in Korea: Who is Happy and When?. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 25(2), 143-166, https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2011.25.2.008
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Abstract

A representative Korean adult sample (N=1,000) was examined to understand the relationship between subjective well-being and major demographic and personality variables (Study 1). An experience sampling study was conducted additionally (Study 2; N=160) to reduce global memory biases. Consistent with past findings (Diener et al., 1999), individual's characteristics played a far more significant role than objective resources in predicting Koreans' happiness. Personality traits and lay beliefs of happiness accounted for about 18% of the variance in the self-reports, and sense of meaning and internal motivation accounted for more than 40% of the variance in predicting when people are happy. In comparison, demographic factors (e.g., age, marital status, religion, education, income) accounted for only 3% of the happiness variance. In sum, even in Korea where objective conditions of happiness are highly sought after, who the person is (his/her psychological characteristics) seems to be more important than what the person has (objective resource) in predicting happiness.

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Korea, happiness, demographic factors, personality, lay beliefs, experience sampling, 한국인, 행복, 주관적 안녕감, 인구학적 특징, 성격, 행복관, 경험표집법

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