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Varieties of Happiness: Mapping Lay Conceptualizations of Happiness in a Spanish Sample

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dc.contributor.authorCabanas Díaz, Edgar
dc.contributor.authorGonzález Lamas, Jara
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-24T10:05:20Z
dc.date.available2024-07-24T10:05:20Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-08
dc.description.abstractResearch on lay conceptions of happiness is essential to determine what is investigated in happiness studies. Whereas psychological investigation has traditionally emphasized the importance of studying people’s everyday conceptions and their relation to cultural and social factors to advance psychological theory, this line of research is still largely overlooked in the field. The Spanish context has also received very limited attention in the area. To fill these gaps, this paper examined 547 lay definitions of happiness in a sample of Spanish participants. The aims of the study were threefold. First, to map and classify the definitions elicited through an open-ended question using a bottom-up approach. Second, to analyze the relationship of happiness definitions with different sociodemographic factors. Third, to explore the relationship between happiness conceptualizations and two different happiness measures. The final classification yielded 39 codes, 15 categories, and 3 overarching types of definitions. Three main findings resulted from the study. First, happiness emerged as a highly heterogeneous concept characterized by diverse social, psychological, and theoretical descriptions. Social types of definitions stood out in the sample. Second, most definitions varied significantly with sociodemographic factors. Third, happiness scores tended to show no significant association with happiness definitions. Implications derived from these results were discussed. Altogether, the paper highlights the value of exploring lay conceptions of happiness to advance toward a more comprehensive and fine-grained understanding of what happiness means for —and, to a certain extent, of how it is experienced by— people of different cultural backgrounds and social settings.en
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dc.identifier.citationCabanas Díaz, Edgar, y González Lamas, Jara (2024). Varieties of Happiness: Mapping Lay Conceptualizations of Happiness in a Spanish Sample. Psychological Reports, 127 (2), pp.688-720. https://doi.org/10.1177/00332941221133011
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/00332941221133011
dc.identifier.issn0033-2941; eISSN:1558-691X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/23085
dc.journal.issue2
dc.journal.titlePsychological Reports
dc.journal.volume127
dc.language.isoen
dc.page.final720
dc.page.initial688
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.centerFacultades y escuelas::Facultad de Filosofía
dc.relation.departmentFilosofía
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject72 Filosofía
dc.subject.keywordshappinessen
dc.subject.keywordslay definitionsen
dc.subject.keywordseveryday understandingsen
dc.subject.keywordssocialen
dc.subject.keywordscultureen
dc.titleVarieties of Happiness: Mapping Lay Conceptualizations of Happiness in a Spanish Sampleen
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