Sociodemographic variation and childhood predictors of showing love and care for others in 22 countries.

ABSTRACT: Showing love and care for other people is a vital aspect of human relationships. However, little is known about how levels of love/care expression differ across cultures and across sociodemographic groups within those different cultures, or about the potential childhood antecedents that are associated with love/care expression in adulthood. Based on nationally-representative data from 22 countries in six continents in the Global Flourishing Study (N = 202,898), we present ordered means of love/care expression across countries, observe its distributions across key sociodemographic characteristics, and evaluate the strength of its childhood predictors (with E-values as a robustness check), revealing the extent to which the distributions and associations are uniform throughout the world or di

SUBMITTER: Lee MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12804932 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature