The Effects of Proactive Coping and Positivity Ratio to Life Satisfaction and Depression

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-362
Author(s):  
Seung-Ju Hyun ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Proactive Coping ◽  
Positivity Ratio

scholarly journals Proactive Coping Inventory: Adaptation to a Non-Clinical Sample and the Predictive Capability

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.P. Belinskaya ◽  
A.V. Veсherin ◽  
E.R. Agadullina
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Proactive Coping ◽  
Short Version ◽  
High Life Satisfaction ◽  
The Russian Language

The article presents the results of the Russian-language adaptation of the proactive copying questionnaire. The study involved 405 Russian-speaking respondents (age from 18 to 63 years, M = 20,5 , SD = 6,97). Based on the analysis of scales and confirmatory factor analysis, the full version of the questionnaire on the Russian-language sample showed unsatisfactory psychometric indicators. A short version of the questionnaire is proposed, which corresponds well to empirical data. Based on the regression analysis, proactive coping strategies were identified. These strategies are predictors of high life satisfaction. The greatest contribution to the level of satisfaction with life is the search for emotional support and proactive copying. On the basis of structural modeling, the relationships of coping strategies, positive and negative emotions and life satisfaction were studied. The results show that the predictors of life satisfaction are positive emotions and a person's confidence that he will successfully solve a difficult life situation.

scholarly journals Predicting Well-Being and Life Satisfaction in Colombian Adolescents: The Role of Emotion Regulation, Proactive Coping, and Prosocial Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Karen Ripoll ◽  
Sonia Carrillo ◽  
Yvonne Gómez ◽  
Johny Villada ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Proactive Coping ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
9Th Grade ◽  
Predictive Variables

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between positive competences, such as emotion regulation, proactive coping and prosocial behavior, and Colombian adolescents' perception of their well-being and life satisfaction. Through a convenience sample, 930 7th and 9th grade adolescents attending 11 public and private schools in 2 main cities of Colombia answered to a set of scales that evaluate proactive coping, emotion regulation, prosocial behavior, perceived life satisfaction and well-being. Multiple linear regression analyses were conducted to evaluate models for adolescents' well-being and life satisfaction, with the positive competences taken as predictive variables. The model that showed the best fit and accounted for the greatest amount of variance in adolescents' well-being and life satisfaction included 2 dimensions of proactive coping (positive and social), emotion regulation and prosocial behavior. Recommendations for future research and the development of intervention programs to promote adolescents' well-being are presented.

scholarly journals Quality of life and proactive coping with stress in a group of middle adulthood women with type 2 diabetes

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Kalka
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Proactive Coping ◽  
General Level ◽  
Middle Adulthood

Abstract In middle adulthood the intensity of stress is significantly higher than in the preceding developmental period. This stress is particularly significant in the case of chronically ill women, including those with type 2 diabetes. In this group, the disease-related stress intensifies the difficulties generated by the decrease of age-related organismic resources and in many instances impairs the quality of life. Therefore, an ability to cope with difficult situations is of crucial importance. The aim of the research was to estimate the general level of life-satisfaction, as well as the frequency and effectiveness of proactive coping strategies in a group of middle adulthood women with type 2 diabetes compared to women not suffering from diabetes. The study was conducted with methods which have acknowledged psychometric properties (SWLS, WHOQoL - BREF, PCI) as well as a survey collecting sociodemographic data. Women suffering from type 2 diabetes are less satisfied with their prior and current life, health and the physical dimension of their lives and environment. Only partially do they employ proactive coping strategies different from those used by the women from the healthy group. For life-satisfaction in its various aspects it is particularly important for the diabetic women to more often use the strategy of reflective coping and to less often seek emotional support while using the strategy of preventive coping or avoidance. The proactive strategies directed at anticipated stress are connected with the level of life-satisfaction and considered to be health resources.

Proactive Coping, Time Perspective and Life Satisfaction

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akansha Dwivedi ◽  
Renu Rastogi
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Proactive Coping ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
New Research

Purpose: This study aims to analyze how time perspective (TP) (future and present) and proactive coping (preventive and proactive) strategies influence the life satisfaction of emerging adults. Design/methodology/approach: The present study is basically correlational in nature. The data was collected from 90 undergraduate first-year students who are just entered to the stage of early adulthood. To measure the reaction of these students on three questionnaires (Zimbardo Time Inventory, proactive coping inventory and Satisfaction with Life Scale [SWLS]). Generalized linear and stepwise regression models were conducted for data analysis. Findings: The results showed, as expected, that proactive coping emerging as a single significant predictor of life satisfaction of emerging adults. Originality/value: The study offers a model that extends the scope of previous research works in the field of life satisfaction. It also provides a new research paradigm to the area of emerging adulthood as in it introduces some individual factors that could enhance their (emerging adulthood) life satisfaction.

Different Future Time Perspectives Interplay in Predicting Life Satisfaction

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjie Lu ◽  
Angel Y. Li ◽  
Helene H. Fung ◽  
Klaus Rothermund ◽  
Frieder R. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Time Perspective ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Time Perspective ◽  
Hong Kong Chinese ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
Time Extension ◽  
Future Self ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. This study addresses prior mixed findings on the relationship between future time perspective (FTP) and well-being as well as examines the associations between three aspects of FTP and life satisfaction in the health and friendship domains. 159 Germans, 97 US Americans, and 240 Hong Kong Chinese, aged 19–86 years, completed a survey on future self-views (valence) and life satisfaction. They also reported the extent to which they perceived future time as expanded vs. limited (time extension) and meaningful (openness). Findings revealed that individuals with more positive future self-views had higher satisfaction. However, those who perceived their future as more meaningful or perceived more time in their future reported higher satisfaction even when future self-views were less positive.

Social and Temporal Comparisons as Moderators of Psychological Resources Associations With Wellbeing

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 96-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasida Ben-Zur
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Subjective Wellbeing ◽  
Social Comparisons ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Psychological Resources ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Age Range ◽  
General Wellbeing

Abstract. The current study investigated the associations of psychological resources, social comparisons, and temporal comparisons with general wellbeing. The sample included 142 community participants (47.9% men; age range 23–83 years), who compared themselves with others, and with their younger selves, on eight dimensions (e.g., physical health, resilience). They also completed questionnaires assessing psychological resources of mastery and self-esteem, and three components of subjective wellbeing: life satisfaction and negative and positive affect. The main results showed that high levels of psychological resources contributed to wellbeing, with self-enhancing social and temporal comparisons moderating the effects of resources on certain wellbeing components. Specifically, under low levels of mastery or self-esteem self-enhancing social or temporal comparisons were related to either higher life satisfaction or positive affect. The results highlight the role of resources and comparisons in promoting people’s wellbeing, and suggest that self-enhancing comparisons function as cognitive coping mechanisms when psychological resources are low.

Measurement Invariance of the Serbian Version of the Satisfaction With Life Scale Across Age, Gender, and Time

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veljko Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Life Scale ◽  
Serbian Version ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Over Time

Abstract. The present research aimed at examining measurement invariance of the Serbian version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) across age, gender, and time. A total sample in Study 1 consisted of 2,595 participants from Serbia, with a mean age of 23.79 years (age range: 14–55 years). The final sample in Study 2 included 333 Serbian undergraduate students ( Mage = 20.81; age range: 20–27 years), who completed the SWLS over periods of 6 and 18 months after the initial assessment. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the modified unidimensional model of the SWLS, with correlated residuals of items 4 and 5 tapping past satisfaction. The results of the multigroup confirmatory factor analysis supported the full scalar invariance across gender and over time and partial scalar invariance across age. Latent mean comparisons revealed that women reported higher life satisfaction than men. Additionally, adolescents reported higher life satisfaction than students and adults, with adults showing the lowest life satisfaction. Our findings indicate that the SWLS allows meaningful comparisons in life satisfaction across age, gender, and over time.

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