A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Diener’s Tripartite Model of Subjective Well-Being Across 16 Countries

Veljko Jovanović (), Maksim Rudnev, Christ Billy Aryanto, Beatrice Adriana Balgiu, Corrado Caudek, Jesus Alfonso D. Datu, Tharina Guse, Theodoros Kyriazos, Louise Lambert, Krishna Kumar Mishra, Rogelio Puente-Díaz, Sean P. M. Rice, Kamlesh Singh, Katsunori Sumi, Kwok Kit Tong, Saad Yaaqeib, Murat Yıldırım, Gaja Zager Kocjan and Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska
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Veljko Jovanović: University of Novi Sad
Maksim Rudnev: University of Waterloo
Christ Billy Aryanto: Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia
Beatrice Adriana Balgiu: National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest
Corrado Caudek: University of Florence
Jesus Alfonso D. Datu: University of Hong Kong
Tharina Guse: University of Pretoria
Theodoros Kyriazos: Panteion University
Louise Lambert: HappinessMatters.Org
Krishna Kumar Mishra: National Forensic Sciences University
Rogelio Puente-Díaz: Universidad Anáhuac México
Sean P. M. Rice: Oregon Health and Science University-Portland State University
Kamlesh Singh: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Katsunori Sumi: Nagoya Institute of Technology
Kwok Kit Tong: University of Macau
Saad Yaaqeib: Zayed University
Murat Yıldırım: Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University
Gaja Zager Kocjan: University of Ljubljana
Magdalena Żemojtel-Piotrowska: Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2024, vol. 25, issue 6, No 11, 25 pages

Abstract: Abstract Subjective well-being (SWB) is a multidimensional construct with three components (i.e., life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect) comprising the tripartite model. Yet, despite numerous studies in the field of SWB, the cross-cultural validity of the tripartite structure is still largely unknown. The present study evaluated competing models of SWB’s structure across 16 countries (N = 8860 undergraduate students; age range = 18–29 years; 63.6% female) and examined its measurement invariance using both exact and approximate approaches. The exploratory structural equation model (ESEM) of tripartite SWB that allowed small cross-loadings provided the best fit to the data in the majority of countries, and it demonstrated a high level of approximate invariance, which allows for a comparison of means across countries. A bifactor model with an omitted Positive Affect factor also fit well in all samples making the measurement of the general SWB possible; however, it was less robust for cross-cultural comparisons. The correlations between the three latent SWB factors were consistent across most countries, with a few meaningful exceptions. We conclude that ESEM model represents the tripartite structure of SWB robustly both within and across countries.

Keywords: Subjective well-being; Assessment; Culture; Measurement invariance; Exploratory structural equation modeling; Alignment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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