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Flourishing indicates the extent to which all aspects of a person’s life, including the context in which they live, are considered good. As a multi-dimensional construct, recent work has begun to explore the interrelatedness among flourishing constituents and their contribution to the achievement and maintaining of individual well-being. Using the national representative survey data from the first wave of the Global Flourishing Study (total N = 202,898 from 22 countries; Crabtree et al., 2021), a Meta-Analytic Gaussian Graphical Network (MAGNA) was applied using psychonetrics (Epskamp et al., 2022) to investigate similarity and differences among the reciprocal interrelation of flourishing components across countries. Flourishing was assessed with the twelve self-report items composing the Secure Flourishing Measure (VanderWeele, 2017). A random-effect MAGNA model was estimated to obtain a common cross-country network of flourishing, and a variance-covariance matrix of random effects that quantifies the heterogeneity of edges across countries. Results revealed: (a) consistent heterogeneity in the strength of associations between flourishing components, especially in the interrelations between life satisfaction, happiness and mental health; (b) the common-country flourishing network was characterized by positive interrelations between the flourishing components, with financial and material stability assuming a marginal involvement in the network; (c) “life-satisfaction” and “happiness” emerged as the most central constituents of flourishing with the strongest overall positive influence and predictability with the nodes to which they were connected. Understanding cross-country differences in light of socio-contextual peculiarities will be crucial for informing the development of targeted flourishing interventions.
| If you're submitting a symposium talk, what's the symposium title? | Applications of Psychometric Network Analysis in Psychology |
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| If you're submitting a symposium, or a talk that is part of a symposium, is this a junior symposium? | No |
