Demographic Variation Diligence in Life Across 22 Countries: A Cross-National Analysis

Prior research documents strong associations between increased diligence with improved health and well-being outcomes. However, less is known about how levels of diligence differ across cultures and across demographic groups within those different cultures. This study presents an in-depth, cross-national exploration of diligence across cultures, and its variations across key demographic groups. Using a diverse and international dataset of approximately ~100,000 individuals from 22 countries, we will examine relationships between diligence and key demographics, including: age, gender, marital status, employment status, religious service attendance, education, and immigration status. We will be using data from the mid-year survey, which we anticipate will have about ~100,000 respondents. Our descriptive results will also present the ordered means of diligence across countries. We will be mindful of potential interpretation challenges due to varying cultural contexts and response scales used. Our work will illuminate the distributions and descriptive statistics of diligence across these demographic features, offer insight into country-specific variations in diligence, and lay a valuable foundation for future investigations into sociocultural influences that might shape diligence.