چکیده:
Subjective wellbeing is a personal experience that points at high levels of positive affections and life satisfaction. The relationship between happiness and life goals with subjective wellbeing provides useful insight into the prerequisites of wellbeing. This study aimed to determine the role of orientation to happiness and life goals in predicting subjective wellbeing.
Methods: Using a cluster sampling method, 285 students were selected studying at first- and second-year of education at Tehran University of Medical Sciences during 2016-2017. The participants responded to the questionnaires of life satisfaction, positive and negative affections, orientation to happiness, and life goals. The obtained data were analyzed using canonical correlation model.
Results: Four significant canonical functions were identified. The first function showed that the orientation to meaning and engagement was associated with a high level of life satisfaction and wellbeing. The second function revealed that the orientation to pleasure was used along with positive and negative emotions. The third function showed that the intrinsic goals were in line with higher life satisfaction. The last function indicated a direct relationship between extrinsic goals with positive and negative affections.
Conclusion: Orientation to meaning and engagement as well as the development of intrinsic goals increases the level of life satisfaction and results in wellbeing
خلاصه ماشینی:
Research Paper: Predictors of Subjective Wellbeing in Students of Medical Sciences: The Role of Orientation to Happiness and Life Goals Soraya Hakimi1/, Siavash Talepasand1* / 1.
2 Article info: Received: 09 Dec 2019 Accepted: 10 Mar 2020 Available Online: 01 Apr 2020 Keywords: Orientation, Happiness, Life, Goal ABSTRACT Subjective wellbeing is a personal experience that points at high levels of positive affections and life satisfaction.
Conclusion: Orientation to meaning and engagement as well as the development of intrinsic goals increases the level of life satisfaction and results in wellbeing.
When people’s basic psychological needs are satisfied rather than suppressed, Self-Determination Theory (SDT) predicts that people will display enhanced ; ; ; ; %%انتهای جدول%%] April 2020, Volume 8, Number 2 motivation, performance, and wellbeing (Jeno, Adachi, Grytnes, Vandvik, & Deci, 2019).
According to Kasser and Ryan, SDT specifies two broad categories of life aspi-rations: extrinsic, such as wealth, fame and public image; and intrinsic, such as meaningful relationships, community contribution, personal growth, and physical fitness or health (Bespalov, Prudnikova, Nyamdorj, & Vlasov, 2017).
Our hypotheses were as follows: H1: There is a relationship between the components of happiness orientation, including pleasantness, meaning, and engagement with the components of subjective well-being such as positive affections, negative affections, and life satisfaction.
H2: There is a relationship between the components of life goals, including wealth, fame, image, growth, rela-tionship, and community with the components of subjec-tive wellbeing such as positive affections, negative affec-tions, and life satisfaction.