Why power decreases happiness in a collectivist context? A qualitative study

• Main Authors: Datu, Jesus Alfonso D., Reyes, Jose Alberto S.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2017
• Subjects: Control (Psychology); Happiness; Educational Psychology; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/65; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/1064/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

In the Western settings, power positively predicted happiness (e.g., Kifer et al. 2013). Though, this result may not be generalized across cultures as cultural psychologists recognized that interdependence is more important in collectivist cultures. Consistent with this conjecture, Datu and Reyes (2...