Pro-sociality and happiness across national cultures: A hierarchical linear model.

Curr Psychol · 2023 · PMC10063332 · PMID 37359628

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of marginal significanceno p-value reported

The impact of masculinity versus femininity and uncertainty avoidance on the variation in happiness levels across countries was discovered to be of marginal significance.

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approaching significanceno p-value reported

This has been a topic of discussion in the social sciences, with some scholars suggesting that “approaching significance” can be used to interpret the marginal significance (e.g., Blake & Gangestad, 2020 ; Salvador et al., 2020 ), while others argue that the established statistical significance standard should be applied and that findings of marginal significance are not statistically significant (e.g., Olsson-Collentine et al., 2019 ).

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