scholarly journals Character Strengths Predict Subjective Well-Being, Psychological Well-Being, and Psychopathological Symptoms, Over and Above Functional Social Support

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina M. Azañedo ◽  
Teresa Artola ◽  
Santiago Sastre ◽  
Jesús M. Alvarado
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Severity Index ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Global Severity Index ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Functional Social Support

The increasing value of character strengths in the prediction of well-being and psychopathology, after the effects of functional social support and sociodemographic variables are accounted for, is examined. Participants were 1494 Spanish-speaking students between the ages of 18 and 68 (43.3% men and 56.7% women) who completed measures of character strengths, functional social support, subjective well-being, psychological well-being, and symptoms of psychopathology. Functional social support had predictive value in explaining the variability of each component of well-being and psychopathology. Regarding character strengths, theological strengths had the greatest predictive power for life satisfaction (β = 0.41), positive affect (β = 0.49), affect balance (β = 0.45), purpose in life (β = 0.60), self-acceptance (β = 0.50), environmental mastery (β = 0.47), and positive relations with others (β = 0.25). Emotional strengths made the strongest contribution to the variance explained (β = 0.41) of autonomy, and intellectual strengths were the strongest predictive variable for personal growth (β = 0.39). Strengths of restraint had the greatest predictive power for the global severity index of psychopathology (β = –0.27). Functional social support and character strengths have strong links to mental health. Positive interventions to develop these variables could contribute to enhance well-being and prevent psychological distress.

scholarly journals TEACHERS’ ENGAGEMENT WITH WORK AND THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Dzintra Ilisko ◽  
Jeļena Badjanova ◽  
Svetlana Ignatjeva
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Educational Level ◽  
Open Systems ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Administrative Work

A number of studies are focusing on interrelations that exist between teachers’ subjective well-being and financial well-being, occupational stress and other factors that influence teachers’ happiness at work. The aim of this study is to explore the factors influencing teachers’ psychological well-being. This involves teachers’ engagement with their professional development. Psychological well-being is conceptualized as a psychological state of mind of teachers in balancing expectations and ability to meet those requirements, a desire for a mindful and meaningful involvement with their work, as well as resilience and competency to deal with the challenging requirements at the workplace. Teachers’ well-being and happiness at work positively influences their performance and a well-being of pupils as well. As a rule, teachers’ profession is associated with high stress, heavy workload, high demands on management in the classroom, high demands on pupils’ academic achievements, and the additional pressure placed on teachers’ engagement with further education. The authors carried out a questionnaire among the teachers from Latvia (n=247). They filled in a questionnaire on a voluntary basis about their subjective well-being in relations to their involvement with the pedagogical work. The authors explored correlation between teachers’ engagement with the research, their educational level, involvement in administrative work, teachers’ personal growth, their view on pupils as open systems and their well-being. It was concluded that all teachers who took part in this study is a relatively homogenous group. Considering their diverse experience of work, educational level and involvement with the scientific and administrative work, their psychological wellbeing can be evaluated higher as average.  

scholarly journals Relationships Among Character Strengths, Self-efficacy, Social Support, Depression, and Psychological Well-being of Hospital Nurses

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 150-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfei Xie ◽  
Min Liu ◽  
Zhuqing Zhong ◽  
Qiuxiang Zhang ◽  
Jianda Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Hospital Nurses ◽  
Psychological Well Being

scholarly journals Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeromy Anglim ◽  
Sharon Horwood
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Environmental Mastery ◽  
Second Wave

The current study assessed the effect of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on subjective well-being (SWB) and psychological well-being (PWB) and whether the pandemic moderated the effect of personality on well-being. Measures of Big Five personality, SWB (life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect) and PWB (positive relations, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life, self-acceptance) were obtained from a sample (n = 1470) of young adults in Melbourne, Australia (13 July to 11 August, 2020) during a second wave of viral transmission and lockdown, and an identically recruited Pre-COVID sample (n = 547). Well-being was lower in the COVID sample and differences were largest for positive affect (d = -0.41) and negative affect (d = 0.64). While the effect of personality on well-being was robust, the effect of personality on well-being was slightly reduced and the effect of extraversion on positive affect was particularly attenuated during the pandemic.

scholarly journals Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Big Five Personality on Subjective and Psychological Well-Being

2021 ◽  
pp. 194855062098304
Author(s):  
Jeromy Anglim ◽  
Sharon Horwood
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Environmental Mastery ◽  
Second Wave

The current study assessed the effect of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on subjective well-being (SWB) and psychological well-being (PWB) and whether the pandemic moderated the effect of personality on well-being. Measures of Big Five personality, SWB (life satisfaction, positive affect, and negative affect), and PWB (positive relations, autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, purpose in life, and self-acceptance) were obtained from a sample of young adults in Melbourne, Australia ( n = 1,132; July 13–August 11, 2020) during a second wave of viral transmission and lockdown and an identically recruited pre-COVID sample ( n = 547). Well-being was lower in the COVID sample, and differences were largest for positive affect ( d = −0.48) and negative affect ( d = 0.70). While the effect of personality on well-being was relatively robust, the effect of personality on well-being was slightly reduced, and the effect of extroversion on positive affect was particularly attenuated during the pandemic.

scholarly journals Cyberbullying and Psychological Well-being in Young Adolescence: The Potential Protective Mediation Effects of Social Support from Family, Friends, and Teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Hellfeldt ◽  
Laura López-Romero ◽  
Henrik Andershed
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Victim Group

In the current study, we tested the relations between cyberbullying roles and several psychological well-being outcomes, as well as the potential mediation effect of perceived social support from family, friends, and teachers in school. This was investigated in a cross-sectional sample of 1707 young adolescents (47.5% girls, aged 10–13 years, self-reporting via a web questionnaire) attending community and private schools in a mid-sized municipality in Sweden. We concluded from our results that the Cyberbully-victim group has the highest levels of depressive symptoms, and the lowest of subjective well-being and family support. We also observed higher levels of anxiety symptoms in both the Cyber-victims and the Cyberbully-victims. Moreover, we conclude that some types of social support seem protective in the way that it mediates the relationship between cyberbullying and psychological well-being. More specifically, perceived social support from family and from teachers reduce the probability of depressive and anxiety symptoms, and higher levels of social support from the family increase the probability of higher levels of subjective well-being among youths being a victim of cyberbullying (i.e., cyber-victim) and being both a perpetrator and a victim of cyber bullying (i.e., cyberbully-victim). Potential implications for prevention strategies are discussed.

A Study on the Relationships Among Character Strengths, Perceived Social Support and Subjective Well-Being of Breast Cancer Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1967-1972
Author(s):  
Feiyan Ruan ◽  
Xiaotong Ding ◽  
Huiping Li ◽  
Yixuan Wang ◽  
Kemin Ye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Well Being ◽  
General Information ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Key Factor

Purpose: Subjective well-being is a key factor affecting the overall quality of life of cancer patients. The aim of this study was to provide information on improving the level of happiness to breast cancer patients by exploring the relationships among character strengths, perceived social support and subjective well-being. Methods: A total of 181 breast cancer patients were enrolled. Participants completed a general information questionnaire, the values in action inventory of strengths questionnaire, the perceived social support scale questionnaire, and the index of well-being questionnaire. Results: The subjective well-being and perceived social support of breast cancer patients were positively correlated with their character strengths (r = 0.167-0.630, all P < 0.05). Perceived social support played a mediating role between the four traits of character strength and subjective well-being. The percentages of the mediating effects that comprised the total effects were 26.3% for perceptual—self-focused, 26.5% for perceptual—other-focused, 23.5% for rational—self-focused, and 23.7% for rational—other-focused. Conclusion: Breast cancer patients’ subjective well-being can be improved by their character strengths and high levels of perceived social support.

scholarly journals The role of psychological well-being in obese and overweight older adults

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cinzia Giuli ◽  
Roberta Papa ◽  
Fiorella Marcellini ◽  
Marco Boscaro ◽  
Emanuela Faloia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Exclusion Criteria ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Impaired Quality

Being obese or overweight is often associated with impaired quality of life and psychological well-being (PWB) in comparison with normal-weight people (Giuli et al., 2014), both in developed and developing countries. PWB is considered a very important correlate of subjective well-being in people with excess weight. The concept of PWB is based on Ryff's multidimensional model (Ryff, 2014), which considers well-being as eudaemonic concept, and includes six dimensions: autonomy, environmental mastery, personal growth, positive relations with others, purpose in life, and self-acceptance. Few studies have analyzed the role of specific correlates of perceived well-being in the obese and overweight Italian older population. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of perceived well-being in obese and overweight older adults. Our study included 124 overweight and obese older participants, aged 60 years or more, selected from patients attending the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Sciences of Polytechnic University of Marche (Italy). As previously described (Giuli et al., 2014), the participants were recruited on the basis of specific inclusion/exclusion criteria, in a period of three years (January 2010–December 2012).

scholarly journals Problematic Smartphone Usage and Subjective and Psychological Well-Being

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Horwood ◽  
Jeromy Anglim
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
Public Health Issue ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Significant Public Health ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Relationship

Despite a growing awareness that problematic usage of smartphones is becoming a significant public health issue, there is limited research on how problematic smartphone usage relates to the humanistic concepts of well-being, particularly those captured in Ryff's six psychological well-being dimensions: positive relations, autonomy, emotional mastery, personal growth, purpose in life, self-acceptance. The current study aimed to provide a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between general and problematic smartphone usage and subjective well-being and psychological well-being using long-form, theoretically grounded measures. Australian adults (n = 539, 79% female; age in years M = 25.1, SD = 7.8) completed Diener's Satisfaction with Life Scale, the PANAS, and Ryff's 84-item measure of psychological well-being. Results showed that problematic smartphone usage was correlated with lower well-being on almost all scales. In particular, negative affect, autonomy, and environmental mastery had the largest negative correlations with problematic smartphone usage. Given the stable and dispositional nature of well-being, it seems likely that much of the relationship is driven by a common underlying tendency to experience anxiety, negative emotions, and a lack of control, combined with a tendency to engage in maladaptive coping and compulsive behavior. This repository provides data, materials, and data analysis scripts to accompany the manuscript of the same name.

scholarly journals The Value of Freedom as a Worldview Factor of Psychological Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (13) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Ksenia Gruzinova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Growth ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Value Of Life ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
General Level ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
The Relationship

The article is devoted to researching the connections between the values of freedom and life wisdom with psychological well-being. The survey had conducted in the form of a written group survey of respondents. In the research, the following research methods were provided: questionnaire "Value Orientations" by M. Rokych; methods of diagnosing the subjective well-being by R.M. Shamionov, TV Beskova; K. Riff's psychological well-being scale. The results of the research were analyzed by using statistical processing methods. The relationship between the values of freedom and life wisdom with the components and aspects of psychological well-being has been identified. It is determined that the value of freedom is positively correlated with the general level of psychological well-being and contributes to the experience of happiness through the realization of the autonomy, ability to build relevant and meaningful goals in life and a sense of personal growth. The dominance of the value of life wisdom is related to the level of psychological well-being and its components in a negative way. It has been stated that the orientation towards the value of freedom is inversely related to hedonistic well-being, and the dominance of this value does not contribute to the feeling of happiness. On the basis of the conducted research the perspective directions of work directed on preservation of optimum psychological well-being in the conditions of remote activity and recreation have been defined. These areas of work include learning the ability to find a balance between activities and recreation and learning effective forms of recreation through online resources. The role of values of freedom and life wisdom as a worldview factor of well-being was proved, the peculiarities of their interdependence during the pandemic were studied.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document