(The measures are: anger, sadness, stress, worry, physical pain; enjoyment, rest, learning, laughter, being respected.)
Can this public confirm through experience what the study states about Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mexico, Estonia...?
That a society has better stats than Afghanistan is understandable; better than, say, Switzerland, is quite interesting.
(Assuming tlb is “wealthy” enough not to need to know people who schedule shaman appointments as a backup-plan in the 1% situations)
*shamans incorporate error correction into their practice here!
I could easily believe cultures with a different movie tradition might well have less positive (heroic?) views on anger and sadness.
People often emerge from apathy with sadness. Sadness to anger. Hollywood dramatizes the heroes journey as have most epics prior.
Films are much less complex than life but watching many of them may help tune complex pattern recognition.