Characteristics of Individualist Countries:

• Prioritize independence, competition, and personal achievement
• Life satisfaction emphasizes self-esteem
• Less attentive to status differences
• People stand out by demonstrating independence
• Higher need for positive self-regard
• Prefer individual activities
• Less time with more people
• More self-focused emotions (anger)
• Emotions are grounded in private experiences and relationship to the self
• More likely to self-enhance
• More likely to value competition
• More likely to focus on personal goals