Intrinsic Motivation and Subjective Well-Being: The Unique Contribution of Intrinsic Religious Motivation

Terman’s study was the first to systematically document the lives of the intellectually gifted. This cross-sectional study replicates and extends some of Terman’s findings on characteristics of the gifted in childhood, comparing largely unselected samples of gifted ( n = 50) and average-ability ( n = 50) adolescents matched by means of propensity score matching. Students were compared on their school performance (standardized math and reading tests and grades), motivation (math ability self-concept, intrinsic motivation, vocational interests, and educational aspirations), parental educational expectations, students’ evaluation of school instruction (perceived quality and pressure), and subjective well-being. The gifted scored higher on math performance (rank-biserial r = .66/.81), math ability self-concept (.71), intrinsic motivation (.62), and investigative vocational interests (.65). Some smaller differences were found for realistic (.42) and social interests (–.37) and for pressure in math lessons (–.52). Results support Terman’s findings on gifted individuals’ psychological functioning and contradict negative stereotypes about the gifted.

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Can Big Five Facets Distinguish between Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being? A Dominance Analysis

The Spanish Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1017/sjp.2016.95 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Rosario J. Marrero ◽

Mar Rey ◽

Juan Andrés Hernández-Cabrera

Keyword(s):

Big Five ◽

Personal Growth ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Factor Model ◽

Five Factor Model ◽

Well Being ◽

Unique Contribution ◽

Relative Importance ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Personality Facets

AbstractIn this study, the aim was to analyze the relative importance of Five-Factor Model (FFM) personality facets for eudaimonic or psychological well-being (PWB) and hedonic or subjective well-being (SWB) through dominance analyses. The participants were 1,403 adult residents of Spain (mean age 37.2 years, SD = 13.9). As expected, facets captured a substantial proportion of the variance in PWB and SWB, with PWB being better predicted than SWB (explaining around 36–55% of the variance of PWB vs. 25% of the variance of SWB). Some facets were common to both types of well-being such as depression (explaining between 5–33% of the variance), vulnerability (explaining between 4–21% of the variance), positive emotions (explaining between 2-9% of the variance) and achievement striving (explaining between 2–10% of the variance), whereas others made a unique contribution according to type of well-being. Certain facets had a greater relative importance for women’s well-being -e.g., positive emotions explained 9% of the variance of self-acceptance for women vs. 3% for men- and others for men’s well-being -e.g., achievement striving explained 9% of the variance of personal growth for men vs. 2% for women-. The present results contribute to the literature by identifying which Big Five facets showed greater relative importance in explaining and distinguishing between PWB and SWB for women and men.

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Social Relationships, Child Poverty, and Children’s Life Satisfaction

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci8020035 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 35 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Leena Haanpää ◽

Mirka Kuula ◽

Mia Hakovirta

Keyword(s):

Life Satisfaction ◽

Peer Relationships ◽

Social Relationships ◽

Child Poverty ◽

Well Being ◽

Socioeconomic Background ◽

Complex Nature ◽

Unique Contribution ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Children’S Life Satisfaction

Child subjective well-being is determined by various personal, social, and contextual factors. Few studies have found reliable differences in the prediction power of these factors; however, the results vary especially when it comes to sociodemographic factors, such as the effect of child’s socioeconomic background on life satisfaction. This paper examines how poverty and social relationships affect the perceived life satisfaction of Finnish schoolchildren. Drawing on survey data of Finnish schoolchildren, from grades 5, 7, and 9 (n = 1793), linear regression was used to test how life satisfaction would be associated with socio-demographic variables, poverty, and child–parent and peer relationships. The results emphasize the complex nature of the determinants of children’s life satisfaction. The greatest unique contribution for change of life satisfaction was made by the time spent with mother (β(p) = 0.189). Overall, the model showed a good fit (R2 19.9). These findings have important implications for family policies and services that promote good parenting and positive parent–child relationships. Furthermore, this study highlights relational well-being as a key determinant of children’s life satisfaction.

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THE LATENT CONTENT MODEL OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

International Journal of Economics ◽

10.47604/ijecon.1183 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 13

Author(s):

Ntogwa Ng’habi Bundala

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Well Being ◽

Unique Contribution ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Economic Variables ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Mediation Effects ◽

Linear Modelling ◽

Latent Content

Purpose: This paper aimed to establish a latent content (LC) model of economic growth that integrates both economic and non-economic variables. Methodology: The study used a cross-sectional survey research design. The checklist questionnaires were used to collect primary data. The sample size of the study was 2011 individuals, randomly sampled from Mwanza and Kagera regions in Tanzania. Cronbach’Alpha and principal component analysis (PCA) were used to test reliability and validity of questionnaires respectively. The study used both linear and non-linear modelling data analytics methods to examine assumptions of the LC model of economic growth. Clearly, the study used automatic linear modelling, stochastic structural-factor frontier analysis, and structural equation modelling to test the linearity assumption of the LC model. Moreover, the probit model and neural network analysis were used to examine the non- linearity assumption of the LC model. Findings: The study evidenced that the LC model was significantly determined by capital, psychological well-being (PWB), and labour. However, the labour was found significant negatively impacts economic growth. The subjective well-being (SWB) indicators were found insignificantly impacting the economic growth, however they have indirect impacts. Furthermore, the study confirmed that non-economic variables had less probabilistic power than economic variables. The paper concluded that an optimal economic growth (GDP) was direct related to capital, psychological wellbeing and inversely proportional to labour. However, the effectiveness of capital and labour were due to mediation effects of subjective well-being and psychological well-being respectively. Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The LC model of economic growth introduces a modern theory of economic growth, that its adoption will affect the traditional economic theories, practices and policy settings. The model was found empirically valid, hence, the paper recommended the adoption of the LC model in pre-and post micro and macro-economic policy and strategy designs/planning. The adoption of the model will increase the probability of an individual of getting a high economic growth (output) as well as the strengthening of psychosocial resources. However, this study suggested further study by using longitudinal data to attest the LC model as the current study only limited on the cross-sectional data.

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The Balance between Work and Life for Subjective Well-Being: A Moderated Mediation Model

Journal of Open Innovation Technology Market and Complexity ◽

10.3390/joitmc6040127 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 127

Author(s):

Zameer ul Hasan ◽

Muhammad Imran Khan ◽

Tahira Hassan Butt ◽

Ghulam Abid ◽

Saqib Rehman

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Health Care ◽

Intrinsic Motivation ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Well Being ◽

Moderated Mediation ◽

Work Life ◽

Work Life Balance ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Life Balance

The aim of this study is to investigate the association among work-life balance, intrinsic motivation, subjective well-being and job satisfaction among the healthcare professionals of Pakistan. Utilizing a sample of 301 Health Care Professionals, the authors tested the proposed relationships. Findings were constant with the hypothesized theoretical scheme, and mediated association between work-life balance and subjective well-being through job satisfaction was stronger when intrinsic motivation was low rather than high. Based on the findings, we suggest that the association between work-life balance and subjective well-being in Health Care Professionals is more complicated than was previously believed—thus yielding a pattern of moderated mediation. In brief, it was found that work-life balance enhances subjective well-being through job satisfaction when intrinsic motivation is low. We also discuss the theoretical contributions and practical implications of the research and directions for future studies.

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Connection between spiritual involvement and psychological well-being among the congregation of the Church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists

Вестник Костромского государственного университета им Н А Некрасова ◽

10.34216/2073-1426-2020-26-4-67-73 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 67-73

Author(s):

Miroslav I. Yasin ◽

Andryus V. Ananka-Ganin

Keyword(s):

Religious Involvement ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Spiritual Experiences ◽

Test Results ◽

Religious Motivation ◽

Evangelical Christians ◽

Positive Correlation ◽

Student’S T ◽

The Church

The article focuses on the study of the interaction of spiritual involvement, topical religious feelings, the specifics of religious motivation and subjective well-being among parishioners of the Church of Evangelical Christians-Baptists. The experimental data consisted of 80 respondents from the congregation of the churches of Evangelical Christians-Baptists with 40 men and 40 women involved. We have used a self-designed questionnaire to measure religious involvement, INSPIRIT test made by Jared Kass to measure the topicality of spiritual experiences, a religious motivation questionnaire constructed by Irena Stojković & Jovan Mirić to study motivation and Subjective Well-Being Scale method to measure subjunctive well-being. The mathematical analysis of the results included Pearson's correlation coefficient with bilateral rotation, Student's t-test was used to seek possible differences between subgroups, all the calculations were made in MC Excel and SPSS programmes. The study showed that the INSPIRIT test results have significant positive correlation with the data of the religious involvement questionnaire, r = 0.71 (P ≤ 0.01). The INSPIRIT test results also have positive correlation with the data of the Scale of Religion as the highest value of religious motivation test, r = 0.55 (P ≤ 0.01). The correlation analysis showed that Evangelical Christians’-Baptists’ spiritual involvement (questionnaire) and vividness of spiritual experiences (INSPIRIT) are highly interconnected, that is to say, persons who more frequently attend church recommended events and perform spiritual practices have more vivid subjunctive spiritual experience. A number of specific features of Baptists are discovered by the questionnaire on religious motivation.

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Pengaruh dukungan teman sebaya dan motivasi belajar terhadap penyesuaian diri santri

TAZKIYA JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY ◽

10.15408/tazkiya.v4i2.10837 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Malini Ulfah

Keyword(s):

Regression Analysis ◽

Intrinsic Motivation ◽

Social Integration ◽

Multiple Regression Analysis ◽

Multiple Regression ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Probability Sampling

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui pengaruh dukungan teman sebaya danmotivasi belajar terhadap penyesuaian diri santri. Sampel dalam penelitian iniadalah santri kelas 1. Extention Pondok Pesantren Daar el Qolam sebanyak 204orang. Teknik sampling yang digunakan adalah probability sampling. Analisis datayang digunakan adalah Multiple Regression Analysis pada taraf signifikansi 0,05.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada pengaruh yang signifikan dukunganteman sebaya dan motivasi belajar terhadap penyesuaian diri santri. Proporsivarians dari subjective well-being yang dijelaskan oleh semua independent variableadalah sebesar 10,1%, sedangkan 89,9% sisanya dipengaruhi oleh variabel laindiluar penelitian ini. Hasil uji hipotesis minor menunjukkan bahwa Dimensiamotivation pada motivasi belajar memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadappenyesuaian diri. Sementara itu dimensi dukungan teman sebaya: emotionalattachment, social integration, reassurance of worth, reliable alliance, guidance,opportunity for nurturance, dan tipe motivasi belajar: intrinsic motivation danextrinsic motivation tidak memiliki pengaruh signifikan terhadap penyesuaiandiri santri.

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Conflict Avoidance in Old Age

GeroPsych ◽

10.1024/1662-9647/a000168 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 30 (2) ◽

pp. 61-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Lia Oberhauser ◽

Andreas B. Neubauer ◽

Eva-Marie Kessler

Keyword(s):

Social Support ◽

Perceived Social Support ◽

Well Being ◽

Cross Sectional Study ◽

Conflict Avoidance ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Sectional Study ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Adult Lifespan ◽

Set Up

Abstract. Conflict avoidance increases across the adult lifespan. This cross-sectional study looks at conflict avoidance as part of a mechanism to regulate belongingness needs ( Sheldon, 2011 ). We assumed that older adults perceive more threats to their belongingness when they contemplate their future, and that they preventively react with avoidance coping. We set up a model predicting conflict avoidance that included perceptions of future nonbelonging, termed anticipated loneliness, and other predictors including sociodemographics, indicators of subjective well-being and perceived social support (N = 331, aged 40–87). Anticipated loneliness predicted conflict avoidance above all other predictors and partially mediated the age-association of conflict avoidance. Results suggest that belongingness regulation accounts may deepen our understanding of conflict avoidance in the second half of life.

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Leisure Activities and the Subjective Well-Being of Older Adults in Croatia

GeroPsych ◽

10.1024/1662-9647/a000179 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 31-39 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ljiljana Kaliterna Lipovčan ◽

Tihana Brkljačić ◽

Zvjezdana Prizmić Larsen ◽

Andreja Brajša-Žganec ◽

Renata Franc

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Leisure Activities ◽

Leisure Activity ◽

Later Life ◽

Perceived Health ◽

Well Being ◽

Hierarchical Regression ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Convenience Sample ◽

Financial Status

Abstract. Research shows that engagement in leisure activities promotes well-being among older adults. The objective of the current study was to examine the relationship between subjective well-being (flourishing) and leisure activities (total number of different activities in the previous year) in a sample of older adults in Croatia, thereby considering the variables of sex, marital status, financial status, and self-perceived health. The differences in the examined variables between the groups of older adults who reported to be engaged in new activities with those who did not were also examined. The sample of N = 169 older adults aged 60 years and above was drawn from a convenience sample of adult internet users in Croatia. Participants reported their self-perceived health and the number of leisure activities they engaged in over the previous year as well as completing the Flourishing Scale. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that older adults who were engaged in more various leisure activities, who perceived better financial status, and who were married reported higher levels of flourishing. A comparison of the two groups of older adults with and without engagement in leisure activities showed that those engaged in at least one leisure activity were more likely to be women, reported higher levels of flourishing, and perceived their own financial status as better. This study indicated that engaging in leisure activities in later life might provide beneficial effects for the well-being of older adults.

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