Life satisfaction and life values: A cross-cultural study on happiness in Indian and Czech samples
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| Year of publication | 2015 |
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| Description | The international research project on Well-being, life values and social capital (SoCaWe) has been running since 2012. In our cross-cultural study we compared subjective wellbeing and its link to life values among Czech (N=165), South Indian (N=187) and North Indian (N=168) university students. The aim of the study was to determine which life values are most important to the respondents, with which life values they are most satisfied with, and to find a relationship between the life values and well-being among three samples. We revealed that life satisfaction (LS) in Czech students is higher than in Indian sample. In Czech students, their LS is mostly connected with perceived importance of life value Family and with satisfaction with meeting the psychological needs and life values: Work, Finances, Education, and Friendship. In North Indian students (IIT Delhi) their satisfaction with life is tightly connected with perceived importance of life value Sense of belonging. In South Indian students (IIT Madras) their satisfaction with life is most connected with perceived importance of life values Friendship, and with satisfaction with life values: Fun, Friendship, and Health. The results revealed a culturally specific context and differences in well-being and life values. Further analysis revealed interesting connections between subjective well-being and social capital in two respected countries. |