scholarly journals Contextual and psychological variables in a descriptive model of subjective well-being and school engagement

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arantzazu Rodríguez-Fernández ◽  
Estibaliz Ramos-Díaz ◽  
Arantza Fernández-Zabala ◽  
Eider Goñi ◽  
Igor Esnaola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
School Engagement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Psychological Variables

Subjective Well-Being and Student Development

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiqiao Fan
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Student Development ◽  
School Engagement ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Young Students

Subjective well-being (SWB) emphasizes individuals’ emotional evaluation and cognitive appraisal of life quality, taking life satisfaction (LS) (both general and specific), positive affect (PA), and negative affect (NA) into consideration. Traditionally, SWB research has been conducted on adults; that on adolescents and young students has been limited. Moreover, SWB has generally been explored as an outcome variable related to people’s learning, work, relationships, and health. However, SWB should be considered a dynamic and agentic system that may promote an individual’s self-development as well as social development. Among student populations, SWB has been proven to affect academic achievement, health, and developmental variables such as personality, life quality, school engagement, and career development. Schools and higher educational environments are not only places in which young people acquire academic knowledge and capacities; they are also places in which students connect with others, develop their personalities, experience all facets of society, and construct their life meaning, sense of self-esteem, and career identity. Furthermore, from a developmental and constructive perspective, some empirical evidence supported the idea that SWB may be a pivotal variable affecting student development. Nevertheless, whether SWB can benefit development among young students is controversial, as is whether SWB is a predictor of individual development or a developmental outcome. Therefore, in examining the research beyond the relationship between SWB and health or academic achievement, studies on the contribution of SWB to student development must be reviewed.

scholarly journals Understanding Unemployment Normalization: Individual Differences in an Alternative Experience With Unemployment

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Houssemand ◽  
Steve Thill ◽  
Anne Pignault
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Vocational Counseling ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Differential Approach ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
People’S Perceptions

Unemployment is a major concern of societies and people around the world. In addressing this phenomenon, the literature has suggested a change in unemployed people’s perceptions of this transition period. In this paper, we apply a differential approach to explore the concept of unemployment normalization, an individual emotional regulation process. The results show how the global socioeconomic context and some individual and psychological variables influence the normalization of unemployment. Thus, the age of the person but also work involvement, coping strategies, locus of control, and level of self-esteem have indirect differential effects, mediated by unemployment normalization dimensions, on unemployed people’s perceived health. Only neuroticism has a direct link to subjective well-being. These results offer a new understanding of the perception of unemployment and are also discussed in the area of career and vocational counseling.

scholarly journals Describing the elephant: a foundational model of human needs, motivation, behaviour, and wellbeing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Habermacher ◽  
Argang Ghadiri ◽  
Theo Peters
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Basic Psychological Needs ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Behavioural Theories ◽  
Broad Consensus

Models of basic psychological needs have been present and popular in the academic and lay literature for more than a century yet reviews of needs models show an astonishing lack of consensus. This raises the question of what basic human psychological needs are and if this can be consolidated into a model or framework that can align previous research and empirical study. The authors argue that the lack of consensus arises from researchers describing parts of the proverbial elephant correctly but failing to describe the full elephant. Through redefining what human needs are and matching this to an evolutionary framework we can see broad consensus across needs models and neatly slot constructs and psychological and behavioural theories into this framework. This enables a descriptive model of drives, motives, and well-being that can be simply outlined but refined enough to do justice to the complexities of human behaviour. This also raises some issues of how subjective well-being is and should be measured. Further avenues of research and how to continue building this model and framework are proposed.

Awareness of Aging Processes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Josephine Dutt ◽  
Hans-Werner Wahl ◽  
Manfred Diehl
Keyword(s):  
Aging Process ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Subjective Age ◽  
Aging Research ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Age Attitudes

The term Awareness of Aging (AoA) incorporates all aspects of individuals’ perceptions, behavioral experiences, and subjective interpretations related to their process of growing older. In this regard, AoA goes beyond objective descriptions of the aging process, such as calendar age or biological age. Commonly used AoA constructs referring to the ongoing experience of the aging process encompass concepts such as subjective age, attitudes toward one’s own aging, self-perceptions of aging, and awareness of age-related change. AoA also incorporates elements that are more pre-conscious in nature, such as age stereotypes and culturally held notions about the aging process. Despite their theoretically broad common foundation, AoA constructs differ according to their specific frames of reference, such as whether and how they take into account the multidimensionality and multi-directionality of development. Examining the existing body of empirical work identifies several antecedents of AoA, such as sociodemographic “background” variables, physical health and physical functioning, cognition, psychological well-being and mental health, psychological variables (e.g., personality, anxiety), and life events. In general, more positive manifestations on these variables are accompanied by a more positive perception and evaluation of the aging process. Moreover, AoA is longitudinally linked to important developmental outcomes, such as health, cognition, subjective well-being, and mortality. Overall, the study of AoA has developed as a promising area of psychological aging research that has grown in its conceptual and empirical rigor during recent years.

Resilience and Burnout: A Stitch That Could save Nine

2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. W. Strümpfer
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Proactive Coping ◽  
Optimal Experience ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Balint Groups ◽  
Central Argument

The central argument in this article is that there are psychological variables, subsumed here under the generic heading of resilience, that advance fortigenesis and thus create tendencies contrary to those that produce burnout, or favourable to its antipode of engagement. In a literature review, five theoretical variables are presented: engagement, meaningfulness, subjective well-being, positive emotions, and proactive coping, as well as five somewhat practical suggestions: personal strategic planning, restorative places, optimal experience (flow), interpersonal flourishing, and Balint groups. Some comments are made about research needs.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19-Induced Changes at Schools on Elementary Students' School Engagement

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjærsti Thorsteinsen ◽  
Elizabeth J. Parks-Stamm ◽  
Marte Olsen ◽  
Marie Kvalø ◽  
Sarah E. Martiny
Keyword(s):  
School Engagement ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Well Being ◽  
New Teacher ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Children's Coping ◽  
Induced Changes ◽  
The Impact

In spring 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic led to the shutdown of schools in many countries. Emerging research documents the negative effects of the pandemic and particularly of the shutdown of schools on children's well-being. The present research extends this research by investigating how structural changes made in schools upon reopening to align with COVID-19 restrictions were related to children's emotional school engagement and subjective well-being. An online questionnaire with elementary school children and their parents conducted in Norway in June 2020 (N = 93 parent–child dyads; 46 boys, 47 girls; mean age children = 9.70 years, SD = 1.81) assessed structural changes in schools and children's coping with these changes, emotional school engagement, subjective well-being, self-reported performance in school, and demographics. Results showed that neither receiving a new teacher nor being assigned to a new (smaller) group were associated with negative outcomes. However, children who did not like their new group showed reduced emotional school engagement and subjective well-being, indicating that specific students particularly suffered from the pandemic-induced restrictions. The relationship between liking one's group and SWB was mediated by emotional school engagement. Applied and theoretical implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Age patterns in subjective well-being are partially accounted for by psychological and social factors associated with aging

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0242664
Author(s):  
Arthur A. Stone ◽  
Joan E. Broderick ◽  
Diana Wang ◽  
Stefan Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Variables ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Internet Sample ◽  
The Social ◽  
Age Patterns

Subjective well-being has captured the interest of scientists and policy-makers as a way of knowing how individuals and groups evaluate and experience their lives: that is, their sense of meaning, their satisfaction with life, and their everyday moods. One of the more striking findings in this literature is a strong association between age and subjective well-being: in Western countries it has a U-shaped association over the lifespan. Despite many efforts, the reason for the curve is largely unexplained, for example, by traditional demographic variables. In this study we examined twelve social and psychological variables that could account for the U-shaped curve. In an Internet sample of 3,294 adults ranging in age from 40 to 69 we observed the expected steep increase in a measure of subjective well-being, the Cantril Ladder. Regression analyses demonstrated that the social-psychological variables explained about two-thirds of the curve and accounting for them significantly flattened the U-shape. Perceived stress, distress-depression, an open perspective about the future, wisdom, satisfaction with social relationships, and family strain were measures that had pronounced impacts on reducing the curve. These findings advance our understanding of why subjective well-being is associated with age and point the way to future studies.

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