Situational experience around the world: A replication and extension in 62 countries

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Situational experience around the world: A replication and extension in 62 countries

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Objective: The current study seeks to replicate and extend principal findings reported in The World at 7:00, a project that examined the psychological experience of situations in 20 countries. Method: Data were collected from participants in 62 countries (N = 15,318), recruited from universities by local collaborators to complete the study via a custom-built website using 42 languages. Results: Several findings of the previous study were replicated. The average reported situational experience around the world was mildly positive. The same countries tended to be most alike in reported situational experience (r =.60) across the two studies, among the countries included in both. As in the previous study, the homogeneity of reported situational experience was significantly greater within than between countries, although the difference was small. The previously reported exploratory finding that negative aspects of situations varied more across countries than positive aspects did not replicate. Correlations between aspects of reported situational experience and country-level average value scores, personality, and demographic variables were largely similar between the two studies. Conclusion: The findings underscore the importance of cross-cultural situational research and the need to replicate its results, and highlight the complex interplay of culture and situational experience.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1091-1110
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Personality
Volume	88
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12558
Publication status	Published - 2020 Dec 1

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The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: the research was supported by the US National Science Foundation under Grant BCS‐1528131. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the individual researchers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The Center for Open Science built and hosted the multi‐lingual data‐gathering website. Data gathering in the Czech Republic was supported by grant 20‐012114S by the Czech Science Foundation and by institutional research funding RVO: 68081740 from the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Data gathering in Chile was partly supported by the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (FONDAP 15130009) and Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR) (FONDAP 15110006)

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The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: the research was supported by the US National Science Foundation under Grant BCS-1528131. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the individual researchers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The Center for Open Science built and hosted the multi-lingual data-gathering website. Data gathering in the Czech Republic was supported by grant 20-012114S by the Czech Science Foundation and by institutional research funding RVO: 68081740 from the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Data gathering in Chile was partly supported by the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (FONDAP 15130009) and Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR) (FONDAP 15110006)

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