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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

Characteristics of Individualist Countries

Spielman, R. M., Jenkins, W. J., & Lovett, M. D. (2020, April 22). Psychology (2nd ed.). OpenStax. https://openstax.org/books/psychology-2e/pages/1-introduction

OpenStax Psychology (2nd ed.) Textbook

Those from Western countries tend to favor individualism. Those from the following countries tend to have higher scores on this trait:

- United States
- England
- Australia

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