Compare and contrast indulgence and self-restraint cultures.

What will be an ideal response?

In indulgent cultures, there tends to be a higher percentage of very happy people, a higher importance is placed on leisure and having friends, more extroverted personalities, and lower death rate from cardiovascular diseases. In private life, family life is more satisfying, there is more involvement in sports, and there are loosely prescribed gender roles. Indulgence cultures encourage enjoying life and having fun. In restrained cultures, there tends to be a lower percentage of very happy people, a perception of helplessness, cynicism, more neurotic personalities, more pessimism, and higher death rates from cardiovascular diseases. Private life is characterized by family life being less satisfying, there is less involvement in sports, there are more strictly prescribed gender roles, and priority is given to maintaining order in the nation. Restrained cultures tend to enforce strict norms regulating gratification of human desires.