Meaning matters: linking proactive vitality management to subjective well-being.

IF 1.9 4区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Journal of General Psychology Pub Date : 2024-10-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-22 DOI:10.1080/00221309.2024.2317241

Jianwei Zhang, Wenfeng Zheng, Haihong Li, Weijun Hua, Mengmeng Fu

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Prior research has indicated that positive affect, energy, and vitality are positively related to subjective well-being. Unfortunately, most scholars have overlooked the possibility that individuals may proactively manage their energetic, affective, and cognitive resources to boost their subjective well-being. Grounded in social cognitive theory, the current research focuses on explaining why students' proactive vitality management (PVM) leads to positive outcomes (i.e., meaning in life, subjective well-being) and considers how school support climate moderates these effects. One experimental study (Study 1) and a three-wave lagged survey (Study 2) were conducted to examine the benefits of PVM. The results demonstrated that PVM was positively related to students' meaning in life, further promoting their subjective well-being. Moreover, school support climate accentuated PVM's effect on meaning in life and its indirect effect on subjective well-being via meaning in life. Implications for research and practice are also discussed, along with study limitations and future research directions.

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意义很重要：将积极主动的活力管理与主观幸福感联系起来。

先前的研究表明，积极情绪、精力和活力与主观幸福感呈正相关。遗憾的是，大多数学者都忽略了这样一种可能性，即个人可能会主动管理自己的精力、情感和认知资源，以提高主观幸福感。当前的研究以社会认知理论为基础，重点解释了为什么学生的主动活力管理（PVM）会带来积极的结果（即生活意义、主观幸福感），并考虑了学校支持氛围如何调节这些影响。我们进行了一项实验研究（研究 1）和一项三波滞后调查（研究 2），以研究积极主动活力管理的益处。结果表明，自订学习目标与学生的人生意义呈正相关，进一步促进了他们的主观幸福感。此外，学校支持氛围增强了自订模式对生活意义的影响，并通过生活意义间接影响了主观幸福感。本研究还讨论了研究和实践的意义，以及研究的局限性和未来的研究方向。

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Journal of General Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of General Psychology publishes human and animal research reflecting various methodological approaches in all areas of experimental psychology. It covers traditional topics such as physiological and comparative psychology, sensation, perception, learning, and motivation, as well as more diverse topics such as cognition, memory, language, aging, and substance abuse, or mathematical, statistical, methodological, and other theoretical investigations. The journal especially features studies that establish functional relationships, involve a series of integrated experiments, or contribute to the development of new theoretical insights or practical applications.