Psychological well-being in college students: Psychometric properties of the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT) and the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT)

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the psychometric properties of two integrative inventories of psychological well-being– the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT) and the Comprehensive Inventory of Thriving (CIT)– that could be widely used among Turkish young adults. This study also aimed to examine whether students with severe psychological health symptoms reported higher levels of loneliness, lack of control, and negative feelings, and fewer positive domains of the CIT (e.g., support, belonging, positive feelings, and self-efficacy). The participants of this study included 314 Turkish undergraduate students (76% female with an age range of 18–47 years [M = 22.83, SD = 4.09]) from a state university in Turkey. Confirmatory factor analyses showed good psychometric fit statistics of both the CIT and BIT, confirming the latent structure of inventories. Factor loadings of the CIT items were strong, with robust indicator reliabilities. With regard to the concurrent validity of the measures, the study results showed that the domains and the brief version of the measure had significant correlations with psychological health symptoms. Additionally, individuals with severe mental health symptoms reported fewer positive psychological domains of psychological well-being, whereas having higher negative domains of psychological well-being than those with mild symptoms. Specifically, Cohen's d effect sizes were large for some social resources and subjective well-being domains. Overall, these results provide evidence suggesting that both the CIT and BIT could be used to assess psychological well-being among Turkish young adults.

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Psychometric Properties of the Georgian Version of the Grit Scale

Prizren Social Science Journal ◽

10.32936/pssj.v4i1.128 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 8-13

Author(s):

Natia SORDIA ◽

Khatuna MARTSKVISHVILI

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Psychometric Properties ◽

Well Being ◽

Future Research ◽

Order Structure ◽

Big Five Personality ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽

Study Results ◽

Confirmatory Factor

The concept of grit refers to an individual’s tendency to keep perseverance and passion for long-term goals despite setbacks or obstacles. The present research examines the psychometric properties of the Georgian version of the Grit. 431 individuals participated in the study. Results from the confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) supported a two-dimensional higher-order structure of grit. The relationship with big five personality traits, creative activities, creative achievements, and psychological well-being demonstrated the construct validity of the Georgian version of the Grit Scale (G-Grit). The Georgian version of the Grit Scale seems well suited for future research purposes. Key words: Grit, Personality Traits, Creative Activities, Creative Achievements, Psychological Well-Being.

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Reasons Young Adults Visit (and Do Not Visit) Impaired Grandparents

Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement ◽

10.3138/cja.26.4.357 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 357-365 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Susan D. Boon ◽

Megan J. Shaw

Keyword(s):

Young Adults ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

External Constraints ◽

Study Participants ◽

The Relationship

ABSTRACTThis study explored the value undergraduate students (N = 138) attach to relationships with impaired grandparents by examining some of the reasons they visit (and do not visit) grandparents who live with conditions limiting their cognitive, physical, or psychological well-being. As part of a larger study, participants completed two checklists to indicate their reasons for visiting and not visiting their affected grandparents. Reward-based reasons were endorsed more frequently as motives for visiting than were reasons based on external constraints, family difficulties, guilt, or wanting to take advantage of the time left with their grandparents. Barriers that restricted opportunities to visit were endorsed more frequently as explanations for participants' failure to visit than were problems in the relationship itself, guilt, or severity of impairment.

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An Investigation on Well-being and Emotional Intelligence among Young Adults

YMER Digital ◽

10.37896/ymer20.12/43 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (12) ◽

pp. 456-467

Author(s):

Dr. Sandeep Panchal ◽

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Dr. Sanjeev Kumari ◽

Keyword(s):

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Young Adults ◽

Well Being ◽

Emotional Awareness ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Emotional Management ◽

Age Range ◽

The Relationship

Subjective well-being is a psychological aspect of life satisfaction. An individual’s psychological well-being affects how a person thinks and feels. There are numerous factors which can influence the subjective well-being of an individual. One of the most important factors is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence has been preoccupying a significant place in well-being literature. Goleman (1998) defines it as “emotional awareness and emotional management abilities give the ability to balance emotion and reason in order to maximise long-term enjoyment". It entails recognising one's own and others feelings, managing one's own emotions, and adapting to others emotions. The objective of this study was to examine the nature of the relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological well-being among young adults who are following bachelor degrees from recognized national universities. The sample consists of 200 participants both male and female of age range 19 to 23 years mean age is 21, included in this study. Well-being Inventory and Multidimensional Measures of Emotional Intelligence were administered to measure the subjective well-being and emotional intelligence. Results showed that selfawareness, managing emotions, motivating oneself, handling relations dimension of emotional intelligence evidenced strong positive associations with well-being positive affect, well-being negative affect and well-being total dimensions of well-being. Stepwise regression analysis disclosed two predictors of well-being i.e. managing emotions and motivating oneself. These results have important implications with regard to our current understanding of the relationships between well-being and emotional intelligence.

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Expansion of the Open Area (Johari Window) and Group Work Directed to Enhancing the Level of Subjective Well-being

Journal of Education and Training Studies ◽

10.11114/jets.v7i5.4128 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (5) ◽

pp. 76

Author(s):

Devrim Erginsoy Osmanoğlu

Keyword(s):

Psychological Health ◽

Group Work ◽

Positive Emotions ◽

Interpersonal Relations ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Open Area ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

The People ◽

Johari Window

Open and healthy communication plays an important role in the determination of human relations. While people are interpreting the bodily feedbacks given by the people they are communicating with to understand their intentions, they rely on the information they give about themselves; that is, their explanations about themselves. The Johari Window technique is the technique that supports the creation of trust in interpersonal relations, as well as the elimination of problems arising in the communication used in counseling processes. According to this technique, the area including an individual's behaviors, attitudes, feelings, experiences, skills or clear information about how he/she looks is called the open area. This area’s being broad plays an important role in the individual’s developing close relationships with other members of society, in his/her happiness or in his/her living positive emotions. In many studies, it was determined that both the physical health and psychological health of the people who shared their knowledge about themselves were positively affected. The purpose of the current study is to expand the open area of the group members participating in nine-session group work by using Johari window so that their understanding and awareness of themselves can be improved and their understanding of others can be enhanced and they can be enabled to see interpersonal differences. The study group of the current research is comprised of 12 students; 5 females and 7 males, from the Department of Psychological Counseling and Guidance who participated in the study on a volunteer basis. In the current study, in order to collect data, the Psychological Well-being Scale, which was developed on the basis of Ryff's (1989) psychological well-being model and the Johari Window Evaluation Form developed according to the model proposed by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham were used. According to the posttest results obtained at the end of the study, it was observed that the open areas of the university students participating in the group work were expanded and their scores taken from the sub-dimension “positive relationships with others” of the subjective well-being increased.

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Happy and healthy: The hypothesis of correlation between subjective well-being and psychological health and its role in late adulthood

Journal of Education Culture and Society ◽

10.15503/jecs20122.36.48 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 36-48

Author(s):

IRYNA HORBAL

Keyword(s):

Old Age ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Cognitive Assessment ◽

Well Being ◽

The Elderly ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Positive Functioning ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Late Adulthood ◽

Inner Work

Subjective well-being as an emotional-cognitive assessment of person’s life is an impor-tant aspect of psychological health and positive functioning in general. The hypothesis of connection between subjective well-being, psychological well-being and psychological health is presented. This correlation is very important in late adulthood for ensuring happy obsolescence but has some specifi c peculiarities due to the elderly people’s age and indivi-dual traits. Subjective well-being is a background for effective inner work of summarizing person’s previous life that is the main purpose in old age

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Hubungan Kelekatan Ayah dan Kontrol Diri dengan Kesejahteraan Subjektif serta Kesejahteraan Psikologis sebagai Mediator pada Mahasiswa

Psikologika Jurnal Pemikiran dan Penelitian Psikologi ◽

10.20885/psikologika.vol26.iss2.art11 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 397-412

Author(s):

Muhammad Novvaliant Filsuf Tasaufi ◽

Syarifah Naimi Anisa ◽

Nasifah Rahmi ◽

Audiht Jasmine Sabrina

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Satisfaction With Life ◽

Control Variable ◽

Well Being ◽

Self Control ◽

Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Life Scale ◽

The Relationship

Every individual always faces problems, as well as undergraduate students. The problems are usually related to academic and non-academic issues which require the ability to manage and control themselves, so they are not overwhelmed by these problems. Father attachment can help undergraduate students in overcoming various kinds of problems. This study aims to examine the dynamics of these undergraduate students that focus on the relationship between fatherhood attachment and self-control in which subjective well-being (SWB) and psychological well-being (PWB) mediate among students in Yogyakarta. The subjects of this study were undergraduate students who lived in Yogyakarta (N = 245). This study uses five scales, two scales for the subjective well-being variable, one for the psychological well-being variable, one for the self-control variable and one for the fatherhood attachment variable. The scales used include (a) Satisfaction with Life Scale created by Diener et al (1985); (b) Positive and Negative Affect Scales by Watson et al (1988); (c) Ryff's Psychological Well-Being Scale developed by Ryff (1989); (d) Self-Control Scale from Tangney et al (2004); and (e) The fatherhood attachment scale developed by Armsden & Greenberg (1987). The data were then analyzed using mediation analysis techniques through the JASP application. The results showed that fatherhood attachment did not have a direct effect on self-control, but subjective well-being and psychological well-being could act as mediators of the relationship between fatherhood attachment and self-control.

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The Investigation of the Relationship between Narcissism, Perfectionism, Loneliness, Depression, Subjective and Psychological Well-being in a Sample of Transylvanian Hungarian and Romanian Students

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Psychologia-Paedagogia ◽

10.24193/subbpsyped.2020.2.02 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 65 (2) ◽

pp. 33-63

Author(s):

Éva Kállay

Keyword(s):

Psychological Health ◽

Health Indicators ◽

Psychological Adaptation ◽

Well Being ◽

Comparative Investigation ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Two Samples ◽

The Individual ◽

Levels Of Functioning

"The last decades have witnessed a significant increase in several forms of human psychological malfunctioning, aspects that proved to significantly endanger healthy and efficient human adaptation. Mental health indicators (anxiety, depression, reduced levels of happiness), perfectionism, narcissism, and loneliness have significantly increased, despite the significant improvement of existent life-conditions. The market-based competition and reward system in the educational and professional spheres, as well as the perfectionistic expectations specific to the personal life impose high demands on the individual, which usually become sources of significant chronic stress, further impacting the individual’s quality of life (psychological and subjective well-being, loneliness). The comparative investigation of the above-mentioned variables in Transylvanian Hungarian and Transylvanian Romanian students would offer us the chance to compare these levels of functioning in two, culturally different samples. Our present study is a continuation and refinement of previous studies, and concentrates on the following major aims: (i) the investigation of the possible differences in narcissism, perfectionism, loneliness, depression, happiness, subjective and psychological well-being in Transylvanian Hungarian and Transylva¬nian Romanian first and second year students; (ii) the investigation of the association patterns between variables in both samples, and (iii) the examination of the role the studied variables play on the major indicators of mental and psychological health (depression and happiness) both in the united sample and on the two samples of students separately. The results of our investigation may be beneficial for the tailoring of future prevention and intervention programs that would target the enhancement of psychological adaptation of Transylvanian students Keywords: narcissism, perfectionism, loneliness, depression, subjective well-being, psychological well-being."

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Gender differential in low psychological health and low subjective well-being among older adults in India: With special focus on childless older adults

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0247943 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. e0247943

Author(s):

Ratna Patel ◽

Strong P. Marbaniang ◽

Shobhit Srivastava ◽

Pradeep Kumar ◽

Shekhar Chauhan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Community Involvement ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Well Being ◽

Bivariate Analysis ◽

Special Focus ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Gender Differential

Background Gender and health are two factors that shape the quality of life in old age. Previous available literature established an associaton between various demographic and socio-economic factors with the health and well-being of older adults in India; however, the influence of childless aged is neglected. Therefore, the study examined the gender differential in psychological health and subjective well-being among older adults, focusing on childless older adults. Methodology This study utilized data from Building a Knowledge Base on Population Aging in India (BKPAI). Psychological health and subjective well-being were examined for 9541 older adults aged 60 years & above. Descriptive statistics and bivariate analysis were used to find the preliminary results. Further, multivariate analysis has been done to fulfill the objective of the study. Results Around one-fifth (21.2%) of the men reported low psychological health, whereas around one-fourth (25.5%) of the women reported low psychological health. Further, around 24 per cent of men and 29 per cent of women reported low subjective well-being. Results found that low psychological well-being (OR = 1.87, C.I. = 1.16–3.01), as well as low subjective well-being (OR = 1.78, C.I. = 1.15–2.76), was higher in childless older women than in childless older men. Higher education, community involvement, good self-rated health, richest wealth quintile, and residing in urban areas significantly decrease the odds of low subjective well-being and low psychological well-being among older adults. Conclusion There is a need to improve older adults’ psychological health and subjective well-being through expanded welfare provisions, especially for childless older adults. Moreover, there is an immediate requirement to cater to the needs of poor and uneducated older adults.

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Prevalence and health correlates of Onine Fatigue: A cross-sectional study on the Italian academic community during the COVID-19 pandemic

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0255181 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (10) ◽

pp. e0255181

Author(s):

Andrea Bonanomi ◽

Federica Facchin ◽

Serena Barello ◽

Daniela Villani

Keyword(s):

Psychometric Properties ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Online Survey ◽

Female Gender ◽

Well Being ◽

Academic Community ◽

Private Life ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Psychological Well Being ◽

Use Of Technology

Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people had to shift their social and work life online. A few researchers and journalists described a new form of fatigue associated with a massive use of technology, including videoconferencing platforms. In this study, this type of fatigue was referred to as Online Fatigue. A new tool (the Online Fatigue Scale) was developed, and its psychometric properties were evaluated. This tool was used to assess Online Fatigue among Italian academics and to examine its associations with psychological and physical health. Methods An online survey was conducted in December 2020 on a sample of Italian academics. Besides the Online Fatigue Scale (11 items) used to assess Online Fatigue, the survey was composed of questionnaires (including validated measures) focused on sociodemographic and job-related information, technostress creators, health status, psychological well-being, and COVID-related perceived distress. The psychometric properties of the Online Fatigue Scale were evaluated, and statistical analyses were conducted to examine the associations between Online Fatigue and all the other variables. Results Participants were 307 academics aged 24–70 years old (mean age = 40.7; SD = 10.1). The Online Fatigue Scale showed good psychometric properties. Two subscales were identified: Off-Balance Fatigue and Virtual Relations Fatigue. High levels of Off-Balance Fatigue were associated with a greater use of technology, female gender, and presence of minor children. Participants with high scores on both subscales reported a greater frequency of psychosomatic symptoms, unhealthy habits, poorer psychological well-being, and greater Covid-related perceived distress. Conclusions The Online Fatigue Scale can be considered a reliable tool to assess Online Fatigue, which was significantly detected in our sample of Italian academics, along with its negative effects on physical and psychological health. Being a woman and having young children represent important risk factors. Universities should promote the separation between work and private life by encouraging self-care activities.

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