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Karapetyan L.V., Glotova G.A. (2018) Structural model of emotional and personal well-being. National Psychological Journal, 11(2), 46–56
Abstract
Background. The paper is devoted to the development of a new approach to the study of a person's well/ill-being. Changes in economy, politics and geopolitics, social sphere in Russia and the entire world have resulted in emerging features of modern life that significantly affect the well-being of a person. In this regard, psychology interest in this issue is rising. In Western psychology, two theoretical constructs of "subjective well-being" and "psychological well-being" are clearly differentiated, and the toolkit to correspond each construct is created. However, in the national psychological science, there is a variety of terms with borrowed foreign psychodiagnostical tools.
The Objective of this research is to develop a concept of emotional well-being of a person based on the integration of existing foreign and national psychology approaches to the study of well-being within a new theoretical construct and structural model, and also transforming the models in the research tool and its empirical verification.
The paper considers emotional well-being of a person as an entire existential condition of harmony between the inner and outer world, initiated throughout the living process, activity and communication of a human.
Design. Conducting a pilot study based on the sample of 117 subjects and the analysis of reference literature allowed to build the theoretical construct of "emotional well-being of a person" that includes nine parameters: the three of them include the positive emotional component of well-being, other three ones include positive personal component of well-being, and three components indicate ill-being. These parameters lie in the basis of the research methods for self-evaluation of emotional well-being" (SEEWB) carried out using the sample of 2,229 subjects.
Conclusion. The cluster analysis identified and described groups of respondents in terms of self-evaluation of emotional well-being. The results obtained can be used both in research and in practical activities of a psychologist for diagnosing and optimizing the level of emotional and personal well-being.
Accepted: 12/07/2017
Pages: 46-56
DOI: 10.11621/npj.2018.0206
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Keywords: subjective well-being; psychological well-being; emotional and personal well-being; structural model; methods of self-evaluation of emotional well-being (SEEWB);
Available Online 01.08.2018
Fig. 1. Model for studying emotional and personal well-being
Fig. 2. Individual profiles of respondents with a severe negative (a) and severe positive (b) SEEWB.
Table 1. Answers with Well-Being
|
Category |
Number of Answers |
% |
|
Optimism |
75 |
64,10 |
|
Reliability |
60 |
51,28 |
|
Happiness |
54 |
46,15 |
|
Competency |
53 |
45,30 |
|
Success |
53 |
45,30 |
|
Luck |
47 |
40,17 |
|
Total |
342 |
- |
The sum total of the answers exceeds 100% (n = 117) as the respondents were allowed to indicate several answers
Table 2. Answers with Ill-Being
|
Category |
Number of Answers |
% |
|
Unhappiness |
69 |
58,97 |
|
Pessimism |
60 |
51,28 |
|
Envy |
40 |
34,19 |
|
Total |
169 |
- |
The sum total of the answers exceeds 100% (n = 117) as the respondents were allowed to indicate several answers
Table 3. Descriptive statistics of SEPWB methodology mono-scales (n=2229)
|
|
Happy |
Lucky |
Optimistic |
Successful |
Competent |
Reliable |
Pessimistic |
Unlucky |
Envious |
|
M |
4.76 |
4.48 |
5.31 |
4.52 |
4.89 |
5.71 |
2.30 |
2.09 |
1.63 |
|
R (parameter rank) |
4 |
6 |
2 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
|
σ |
1.717 |
1.608 |
1.626 |
1.537 |
1.441 |
1.324 |
1.502 |
1.485 |
1.055 |
|
Me |
5.00 |
5.00 |
6.00 |
5.00 |
5.00 |
6.00 |
2.00 |
2.00 |
1.00 |
|
Mo |
5 |
5 |
7 |
5 |
5 |
7 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Аs |
-.613 |
-.360 |
-.863 |
-.544 |
-.605 |
-1.185 |
1.194 |
1.583 |
2.202 |
|
Ех |
-.343 |
-.479 |
.025 |
-.137 |
.103 |
1.308 |
.835 |
2.063 |
5.858 |
|
Min |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
Max |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
7 |
Table 4. Mean values of SEPWB methodology mono-scales
|
Me now |
Group with severe positive (SP) SEPWB (М) |
Group with mild positive (MP) SEPWB (М) |
Group with mild negative (MN) SEPWB (М) |
Group with severe negative (SN) SEPWB (М) |
|
Happy |
6.14 |
5.45 |
4.51 |
2.79 |
|
Lucky |
6.01 |
4.81 |
4.49 |
2.81 |
|
Optimistic |
6.54 |
5.68 |
4.58 |
4.42 |
|
Successful |
5.99 |
4.99 |
4.55 |
2.63 |
|
Competent |
6.13 |
5.07 |
4.89 |
3.71 |
|
Reliable |
6.58 |
5.76 |
5.68 |
5.04 |
|
Pessimistic |
1.23 |
1.93 |
3.72 |
2.49 |
|
Unlucky |
1.15 |
1.44 |
2.88 |
3.24 |
|
Envious |
1.12 |
1.42 |
2.76 |
1.38 |
Table 5. Mean values reliability (Kolmogorov-Smirnov criterion. p<0.05) of mono-scale indicators for groups with different types of SEPWB
|
Me now |
SP – MP |
SP – MN |
SP – SN |
MP – MN |
MP – SN |
MN – SN |
|
Happy |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
|
Lucky |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
|
Optimistic |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
|
Successful |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
|
Competent |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.043 |
.000 |
.000 |
|
Reliable |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.383 |
.000 |
.000 |
|
Pessimistic |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
|
Unlucky |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.001 |
|
Envious |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.000 |
.388 |
.000 |
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