12. Regarding wellness across cultures, SDT holds that:

Some cultures are relatively more advanced than others, thus producing greater wellness.

You cannot critic cultures and wellness because the variation is too great.

Cultures are constructed locally and the cultural values are equal, therefore they cannot be evaluated as “better” or “worse” than one another.

Cultures vary in the extent to which they support basic psychological needs, producing variability in wellness across cultures

Participants in vertical societies were the most likely to fully internalize their cultures values.

In all four countries, autonomous endorsement of cultural values was associated with wellness.

Participants in all four countries had the same level of wellness regardless of cultural orientation.

Participants in individualistic societies (like the U.S.) reported the highest levels of wellness.