Happiness and well‐being are often defined as internal feelings or states of satisfaction. As
such, research on well‐being has focused on the long‐term happiness and life satisfaction …

Highlights•The concept and predictors of happiness vary across cultures.•Americans highly
value happiness and define it in terms of pleasure and enjoyment, whereas other cultures …

In well-being research the term happiness is often used as synonymous with life satisfaction.
However, little is known about lay people's understanding of happiness. Building on the …

How can one conclude that well-being is higher in country A than country B, when well-
being is being measured according to the way people in country A think about well-being …

Previous investigations mostly relied on the two-factor model of grit (with perseverance of
effort and consistency of interests as major dimensions) which received a number criticisms …

Culture plays crucial roles in human groups. It allows us to collectively “meet basic needs of
survival, by coordinating social behaviour to achieve a viable existence, to transmit …

Psychological science tends to treat subjective well-being and happiness synonymously.
We start from the assumption that subjective well-being is more than being happy to ask the …

Previous literature emphasized the role of psychological capital (PsyCap) in fostering
positive organizational and work outcomes. However, there were very scarce investigations …

Studies repeatedly have documented that societal well‐being is associated with
individualism. Most of these studies, however, have conceptualized/measured well‐being as …

Qualitative studies of lay people's perspectives on facets of well-being are scarce, and it is
not known how the perspectives of people with high and low levels of well-being dovetail or …