Procrastination

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin B. Klingsieck
Keyword(s):  
Large Body ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Negative Outcomes ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Future ◽  
Functional Forms

Procrastination is a well-known phenomenon that often entails negative outcomes with regard to performance and subjective well-being. In an attempt to understand the (alarming) character of procrastination, a large body of research on the causes, correlates, and consequences of procrastination has been accumulating over the last 40 years. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic characterization of the trends in procrastination research and to suggest future directions for research and practice. The systematic characterization comprises a comparison of procrastination to functional forms of delay (referred to as strategic delay) and a presentation of the theoretical approaches to explaining procrastination. The future directions suggested pertain to the development of a differentiated understanding of procrastination and of integral interventions.

Subjective Well-Being: The Science of Happiness and Life Satisfaction

2009 ◽  
pp. 186-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Diener ◽  
Shigehiro Oishi ◽  
Richard E. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Historical Review ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Hedonic Adaptation ◽  
Measurement Issues ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Review Current

This chapter reviews the scientific research on subjective well-being. Subjective well-being consists of a person's cognitive and affective evaluations of his or her life. First, the authors will provide a brief historical review of research on subjective well-being. Second, they will summarize the main measurement issues (e.g., the validity of self-reports, memory bias). Third, they will present the major theoretical approaches to this area of research (e.g., need and goal satisfaction theories, process or activity theories, genetic and personality predisposition theories). Finally, the authors will review current findings (e.g., hedonic adaptation, the effect of intervention, cultural variation) and suggest future directions for the study of subjective well-being.

scholarly journals Deep foundations of happiness. Principal fundamentals of different types of understanding happiness

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
L. Samarska ◽  
◽  
N.M. Sas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Time Management ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Deep Foundations ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Physiological Basis ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Definition Of

The choice of the article’s topic is conditioned by the necessity to develop happiness management (such as knowledge management, time management, etc.). With considerable attention to the definition of “happiness”, the analysis of recent publications reveals that it is crucial to understand the deep foundations of happiness, create a typology, reveal the basic principles of different types of understanding of happiness, which was chosen as the topic research. Theoretical approaches to the definition of “happiness” are chosen sociology of imagination of G. Durand, the theory of archetypes of C. Jung, and the theory of images and dreams of G. Bachelard. In the context of this system of views, the idea of happiness is the result of a free play of the imagination, which, while being on the path from past to future, is transformed, revealed, comes accurate as a result of previous collective and individual intermediate ideas, and is enriched and concretised by individual people, social groups, individuals. The mythos of happiness across nations and people differs in the way, method, and tools of individuation, the discovery of the Self. The anthropological tract of happiness has an end to its existence. It is determined by the cessation of existence, the life of nations and individuals. The desire to experience pleasure (according to Freud), the desire to rise (according to Durand) are reflexive, which determines the physiological basis of happiness. Representations of happiness determine priorities, coordinate the direction of thinking, actions, reactions to external circumstances, and choose ways to achieve happiness. This is done through the transcendental function (according to Jung) – a psychological function that arises from the connection of the content of the unconscious with the content of consciousness. Achieving happiness allows one to strengthen the subjectivity and reveal their uniqueness, which allows them to identify typological features (archetypes) of behavioural reactions of people based on individual and group ideas about happiness. The authors reveal the basic foundations of such archetypes of happiness as hedonism, eudemonia, “rat racing”, nihilism, subjective well-being.

scholarly journals Screening Using the SDQ Total Difficulties Scale: An Analog Test of Three Cutoff Values

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler L Renshaw
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Analog Test ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Cutoff Values ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties

This brief report presents an analog test of the relative classification validity of three cutoff values (CVs; 16, 18, and 20) derived from responses to the self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: Total Difficulties Scale. Results from Bayesian t-tests, using several school-specific subjective well-being indicators as dependent variables, yielded evidence suggesting all CV models effectively differentiated between students with lower and higher levels of risk. Evidence also indicated that the lowest CV (16) was more effective than the higher CVs (18, 20) at identifying students with greater levels of risk, and that the higher CVs functioned comparably well. Implications for future research and practice are noted.

scholarly journals Screening for Student Subjective Well-Being: An Analog Evaluation of Broad and Targeted Models

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 803-809
Author(s):  
Tyler L. Renshaw ◽  
Jeffrey S. Chenier
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Academic Efficacy ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Middle Schoolers ◽  
Dependent Variables

This brief report presents a secondary analysis of responses to the Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (SSWQ) with a sample of urban middle-schoolers. Relative classification validity evidence was evaluated for two screening models derived from responses to the SSWQ: one based on the Overall Wellbeing Scale (OWS) and the other based solely on the Academic Efficacy Subscale (AES). Results from Bayesian t tests, using several school-reported outcomes as dependent variables, indicated evidence in favor of classification validity for both the OWS and AES screening models. Yet findings also show that the evidence for the AES model was stronger than that for the OWS model. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Technology Addictions and Technostress

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stoney Brooks ◽  
Xuequn Wang ◽  
Christoph Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Negative Outcomes ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Internet And Social Media

In today's technology-centric world, people are becoming increasingly dependent on the Internet. The most common use of the Internet is through social media, which is used to communicate, share, collaborate, and connect. However, continued usage of a hedonic system can be linked with compulsion or addiction. Since problematic usage/behaviors can lead to negative outcomes, this study aims to determine differential effects of Internet and social media addictions on social media-related technostress. This is examined in two different cultures: The U.S. and China. The results support the association between the Internet and social media addictions with increases in social media-related technostress. Additionally, these effects are moderated by culture. Implications for research and practice are discussed along with future directions for this stream.

Looking to the Future to Appreciate the Present

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 1238-1241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime L. Kurtz
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
College Graduation ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
College Life ◽  
The Future

Both psychological research and conventional wisdom suggest that it can be difficult to attend to and derive enjoyment from the pleasant things in life. The present study examined whether focusing on the imminent ending of a positive life experience can lead to increased enjoyment. A temporal distance manipulation was used to make college graduation seem more or less close at hand. Twice a week over the course of 2 weeks, college students were told to write about their college life, with graduation being framed as either very close or very far off. As predicted, thinking about graduation as being close led to a significant increase in college-related behaviors and subjective well-being over the course of the study. The present research provides support for the counterintuitive hypothesis that thinking about an experience's ending can enhance one's present enjoyment of it.

scholarly journals SUBJECTIVE WELL – BEING IN UKRAINIAN STUDENTS DURING THE COVID-2019 QUARANTINE

InterConf ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 214-219
Author(s):  
Maryna Orap ◽  
Yaroslava Kalba
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Year ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
General Decrease ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Future

The global pandemic COVID-19 and introduced quarantine affect not only the people’s health, but their psychological well-being in general. Decrease the subjective well-being at the beginning of quarantine was associated with limited communication, fear for health and limited mobility. In a year the situation has changed, there has been manifested the increasing levels of anxiety during quarantine due to awareness of the difficulties of quarantine life that associated with distance education and limited mobility, financial difficulties and uncertainty about the future. But we studied that during the first year of quarantine the level of subjective well-being has not changed significantly.

scholarly journals Crossroads of Higher Education in Troubled Times Facing the Future of Work and the Subjective Well-Being of Professionals in Latin America

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Iturrieta Olivares
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Professional Work ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Turbulent Times ◽  
The Future ◽  
Current Context

The effects of massification, fragmentation and segmentation in higher education have been exacerbated by the state of current affairs. Latin America has been especially shaken, due to e.g., political changes resulting from massive expressions of social discontent following 2019; or the arrival of COVID-19, its interruption of the quotidian, and its impetus for technology to burst into professional work. In this context, three major crossroads for higher education – resulting from bibliographical and document analysis and integration – are presented in the paper, “Rethinking undergraduate training in social sciences from the imaginaries of the future about professional work”. The paper discusses development in the current context, the future of professional work, and subjective well-being in professionals. To face these challenges, the conclusions propose the exercise of prognostic intelligence as an alternative. Prognostic intelligence is a professional skill that can be developed during higher education. Its practice would eschew the presentism characteristic of our turbulent times in favor of expanding the possibilities of outlining the future of higher education on the basis of relevance, quality, and stability.

Purpose, Meaning, and Career Pathways

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-213
Author(s):  
Bryan J. Dik ◽  
Alexandra J. Alayan ◽  
Kaitlyn A. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Work Motivation ◽  
Meaningful Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Vocational Psychology ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Meaning In Work ◽  
Meaning And Purpose

In addition to providing financial means, work offers an opportunity for individuals to experience meaning and purpose. Meaningful work, defined in this chapter as work that is worthwhile and personally significant, is linked to job satisfaction, work motivation, and psychological well-being. Several vocational psychology theories of career development, along with research on work as a calling and the protean career orientation, have addressed factors that likely influence meaning and purpose in work, either directly or indirectly. This chapter examines the opportunities for career pathways programs and professionals for promoting purpose and meaning in work over the course of a career. Specific strategies related to career choice, choice implementation, career engagement and maintenance/management, as well as retirement, bridge employment, and encore careers are addressed. Future directions for research and practice are also discussed.

scholarly journals Screening Using the SDQ Total Difficulties Scale: An Analog Test of Three Cutoff Values

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 1030-1036
Author(s):  
Tyler L. Renshaw
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Analog Test ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Cutoff Values ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties

This brief report presents an analog test of the relative classification validity of three cutoff values (CVs; 16, 18, and 20) derived from responses to the self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: Total Difficulties Scale. Results from Bayesian t-tests, using several school-specific subjective well-being indicators as dependent variables, yielded evidence suggesting all CV models effectively differentiated between students with lower and higher levels of risk. Evidence also indicated that the lowest CV (16) was more effective than the higher CVs (18, 20) at identifying students with greater levels of risk, and that the higher CVs functioned comparably well. Implications for future research and practice are noted.

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