On personality measures and their data: A classification of measurement approaches and their recommended uses

JD Mayer, VM Bryan - Personality and Social Psychology …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We employ a new approach for classifying methods of personality measurement such as self-
judgment, mental ability, and lifespace measures and the data they produce. We divide …

Introduction to a culturally sensitive measure of Well-Being: Combining life satisfaction and interdependent happiness across 49 different cultures

K Krys, BW Haas, ER Igou, A Kosiarczyk… - Journal of Happiness …, 2023 - Springer
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 …

WEIRD–Confucian comparisons: Ongoing cultural biases in psychology's evidence base and some recommendations for improving global representation.

K Krys, I de Almeida, A Wasiel… - American Psychologist, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
The realization that most behavioral science research focuses on cultures labeled as
WEIRD—Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (Arnett, 2008; Henrich et …

Carbon use efficiency and its temperature sensitivity covary in soil bacteria

G Pold, LA Domeignoz-Horta, EW Morrison, SD Frey… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The strategy that microbial decomposers take with respect to using substrate for growth
versus maintenance is one essential biological determinant of the propensity of carbon to …

Happiness maximization is a WEIRD way of living

K Krys, O Kostoula, WAP van Tilburg… - Perspectives on …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Relationships between achievement goal orientations, learning engagement, and academic adjustment in freshmen: Variable-centered and person-centered …

H Wang, M Xu, X Xie, Y Dong, W Wang - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Academic adjustment is a principal determining factor of undergraduate students' academic
achievement and success. However, studies pay little attention to freshmen's antecedent …

Four decades of challenges by culture to mainstream psychology: Finding ways forward

PB Smith, MH Bond - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Over 5 days at the Nag's Head Conference Center, USA in 1987, social and cross-cultural
psychologists discussed what would be required if research relating to culture were to gain …

A call for interdisciplinary collaboration to promote musculoskeletal health: the creation of the International Musculoskeletal Mental and Social Health Consortium (I …

AM Vranceanu, J Bakhshaie, M Reichman… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - Springer
Despite increasing recognition of psychosocial factors in musculoskeletal conditions, its
impact on reducing the global toll of musculoskeletal symptoms has been only incremental …

Varieties of happiness: mapping lay conceptualizations of happiness in a Spanish sample

E Cabanas, J González-Lamas - Psychological Reports, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Research on lay conceptions of happiness is essential to determine what is investigated in
happiness studies. Whereas psychological investigation has traditionally emphasized the …

MIsgivings about measurement invariance

DC Funder, G Gardiner - European Journal of Personality, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper critically evaluates the conventional insistence on establishing measurement
invariance (MI) in cross-cultural psychology. We argue that complex and seemingly arbitrary …