Abstract
We conducted two studies to investigate the item-order effect on life satisfaction judgments. In Study 1, Japanese and American participants completed various life-domain satisfaction items either before or after completing general life satisfaction items. American respondents weighed the best life domains more strongly than Japanese respondents, in particular when they answered domain satisfaction items before making life satisfaction judgments. Overall, Japanese tended to weigh the worst life domains more heavily when making life satisfaction judgments than Americans. We hypothesized that the Japanese patterns of life satisfaction judgments come from the chronic attention to others' perspective. To examine this hypothesis in Study 2, Japanese participants were exposed to either the "other are not watching" or the "other are watching" manipulation. As expected, when Japanese participants were led to believe that "others are not watching," they judged their overall life satisfaction based more heavily on the best life domains (like Americans in Study 1).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 941-951 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Social Indicators Research |
| Volume | 118 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
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Keywords
- Culture
- Item-order effect
- Life satisfaction judgments
- Social judgments
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Social Sciences(all)
- Sociology and Political Science
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
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Life Satisfaction Judgments and Item-Order Effects Across Cultures. / Saeki, Masao; Oishi, Shigehiro; Lee, Minha; Maeno, Takashi.
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