Abstract
The study examined similarities and differences between people having individualist and collectivist cultural orientations in terms of what they perceive as stressful and uplifting experiences in their daily lives, and the relation between daily experiences and family and life satisfaction. Data were collected from two representative community samples (697 Jews and 303 Arabs). Each sample was grouped into individualist and collectivist cultural orientations. The two cultural orientation groups differed with respect to the appraisal of positive and negative daily experiences. A structural equation modeling (SEM) multi-group analysis indicated a similar factor structure for hassles and uplifts in both groups. However, the two groups differed in the effects of positive and negative daily occurrences on family and life satisfaction.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 89-98 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | American Journal of Community Psychology |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue number | 1-2 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments This study was supported in part by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation (Grant number 808-01).
Keywords
- Allocentrism-idiocentrism
- Cross-cultural research
- Cultural orientation
- Family relations
- Family stress
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Health(social science)
- Applied Psychology
- Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health