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Cross-cultural consistency and relativity in the enjoyment of thinking versus doing.
2018; American Psychological Association; Volume: 117; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1037/pspp0000198
ISSN1939-1315
AutoresNicholas R. Buttrick, Hyewon Choi, Timothy D. Wilson, Shigehiro Oishi, Steven M. Boker, Daniel T. Gilbert, Sinan Alper, Mark Aveyard, Winnee Cheong, Marija V. Čolić, İlker Dalğar, Canay Doğulu, Serdar Karabatı, Eunbee Kim, Goran Knežević, Asuka Komiya, Camila Ordóñez Laclé, Caio Ambrosio Lage, Ljiljana B. Lazarević, Dušanka Lazarević, Samuel Lins, Mauricio Blanco-Molina, Félix Neto, Ana Orlić, Boban Petrović, Massiel Arroyo Sibaja, David Torres, Wolf Vanpaemel, Wouter Voorspoels, Daniela C. Wilks,
Tópico(s)Media Influence and Health
ResumoWhich is more enjoyable: trying to think enjoyable thoughts or doing everyday solitary activities? Wilson et al. (2014) found that American participants much preferred solitary everyday activities, such as reading or watching TV, to thinking for pleasure. To see whether this preference generalized outside of the United States, we replicated the study with 2,557 participants from 12 sites in 11 countries. The results were consistent in every country: Participants randomly assigned to do something reported significantly greater enjoyment than did participants randomly assigned to think for pleasure. Although we found systematic differences by country in how much participants enjoyed thinking for pleasure, we used a series of nested structural equation models to show that these differences were fully accounted for by country-level variation in 5 individual differences, 4 of which were positively correlated with thinking for pleasure (need for cognition, openness to experience, meditation experience, and initial positive affect) and 1 of which was negatively correlated (reported phone usage). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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