National Happiness and National Culture: What’s The Link?

Abstract

Could National Culture be also associated with National Happiness? If we consider that the happiness perceived by individuals is also produced in a given cultural context in addition to the variables already measured in the World Happiness Report, then it is expected that there will be some influential relationship between the dimensions of national cultures and the results of perceived happiness in each country. This is what we have tried to understand by researching and studying the relationship between national cultural dimensions proposed by Hofstede Model and the results of happiness worldwide using the 2019 WHR statistics and the measures of cultural values in the database from Hofstede Insights. The findings are surprising.