School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.
Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Int J Psychol. 2021 Oct;56(5):642-653. doi: 10.1002/ijop.12744. Epub 2021 Feb 1.
One's happiness is expected to be affected by the happiness of surrounding others. This socio-psychological nature of happiness, however, has not been fully examined in the literature of social psychology. The current study examined if this "psychological interconnection of happiness" occurs when (i) individuals have strong personal social capital and/or (ii) individuals belong to a community where other members have strong social capital. We analysed a large social survey dataset sampled from 408 communities in Japan (N = 7295). The psychological interconnection of happiness was measured by calculating the correlation between individual happiness and perceived community happiness. The multilevel analyses revealed that the psychological interconnection of happiness was moderated by community-level social capital above and beyond individual-level social capital, while individual-level social capital did not have a significant moderation effect.
人们的幸福感预计会受到周围他人幸福感的影响。然而，这种幸福感的社会心理学性质在社会心理学文献中尚未得到充分研究。本研究考察了当（i）个人拥有强大的个人社会资本和/或（ii）个人属于其他成员拥有强大社会资本的社区时，这种“幸福感的心理联系”是否会发生。我们分析了从日本 408 个社区中抽取的大型社会调查数据集（N=7295）。幸福感的心理联系通过计算个体幸福感与感知社区幸福感之间的相关性来衡量。多层次分析表明，幸福感的心理联系受到社区层面社会资本的调节，而超越了个体层面社会资本，而个体层面社会资本没有显著的调节作用。
