跨文化视角下情绪与生活意义的关系

People tend to evaluate their lives as more meaningful when they experience more positive affect and less negative affect. However, most evidence for this association comes from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) societies, which are culturally distinctive in their strong emphasis on happiness. To assess the cross-cultural generality of the affect-meaning link, we conducted the largest cross-cultural investigation of this association to date. Between 2022 and 2024, we collected data from 18,672 individuals across 69 countries spanning all inhabited continents. Acro