Think your way to happiness? Investigating the role of need for cognition in well-being through a three-level meta-analytic approach

IF 1.7 3区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Motivation and Emotion Pub Date : 2023-12-05 DOI:10.1007/s11031-023-10047-w

Verity Y. Q. Lua, Wei Ming Ooi, A’isyah Najib, Christine Tan, Nadyanna M. Majeed, Angela K.-y. Leung, Andree Hartanto

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While the extent to which individuals engage in and enjoy cognitive abilities, commonly known as need for cognition (NFC), has been suggested to promote adaptive behaviors associated with well-being, there has not been a systematic examination of the strength of the relationship between NFC and well-being. This meta-analysis sought to examine the association between NFC and well-being. Based on 108 effect sizes extracted from 52 samples (50 records), a small to medium positive relationship (r = .20, 95% CI [.16, .23], p < .001) between NFC and well-being was observed. Sub-group analyses revealed that NFC was associated with different aspects of well-being, including life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, purpose in life, self-acceptance, personal growth, environmental mastery, positive relations with others, autonomy, depression, anxiety and stress (|r|s = [.07, .45]). Exploratory moderation analyses showed that age moderated the relationship between NFC and well-being, whereby the positive relationship was stronger in younger samples. The gender proportion of the sample also moderated the relationship between NFC and well-being for certain specific measures of well-being, whereby the positive relationship between NFC and well-being was stronger among females.

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想想你的幸福之路?通过三层次元分析方法调查认知需求在幸福感中的作用

虽然个人参与和享受认知能力的程度，通常被称为认知需要(NFC)，已经被认为可以促进与幸福感相关的适应性行为，但还没有对NFC和幸福感之间关系的强度进行系统的检查。这项荟萃分析试图检验NFC和幸福感之间的关系。基于从52个样本(50条记录)中提取的108个效应量，中小型正相关(r =。20, 95% ci[。[16， .23]， p < .001])。亚组分析显示，NFC与幸福感的不同方面相关，包括生活满意度、积极影响、消极影响、生活目标、自我接纳、个人成长、环境掌控、与他人的积极关系、自主性、抑郁、焦虑和压力(|r|s = [s])。07年,.45])。探索性调节分析表明，年龄调节了NFC和幸福感之间的关系，因此，在年轻的样本中，正相关关系更强。对于某些特定的幸福感测量，样本的性别比例也调节了NFC和幸福感之间的关系，即NFC和幸福感之间的正相关关系在女性中更强。

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期刊介绍： Motivation and Emotion publishes articles on human motivational and emotional phenomena that make theoretical advances by linking empirical findings to underlying processes. Submissions should focus on key problems in motivation and emotion, and, if using non-human participants, should contribute to theories concerning human behavior. Articles should be explanatory rather than merely descriptive, providing the data necessary to understand the origins of motivation and emotion, to explicate why, how, and under what conditions motivational and emotional states change, and to document that these processes are important to human functioning.A range of methodological approaches are welcome, with methodological rigor as the key criterion. Manuscripts that rely exclusively on self-report data are appropriate, but published articles tend to be those that rely on objective measures (e.g., behavioral observations, psychophysiological responses, reaction times, brain activity, and performance or achievement indicators) either singly or combination with self-report data.The journal generally does not publish scale development and validation articles. However, it is open to articles that focus on the post-validation contribution that a new measure can make. Scale development and validation work therefore may be submitted if it is used as a necessary prerequisite to follow-up studies that demonstrate the importance of the new scale in making a theoretical advance.