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Inspiration Swb

Posted on:2012-09-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H T YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330335471235Subject:Applied Psychology
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SWB (Subjective Well Being) is mainly based on their individual criteria set by their overall evaluation of the quality of life, including life satisfaction, negative affect, and positive affect three basic components. SWB is a measure of the importance of individual quality of life in a comprehensive psychological indicator.Inspiration is conceptualized as having three core characteristics:transcendence, evocation, and approach motivation. Inspiration involves approach motivation; one is compelled to actualize one's new idea or vision. Evocation refers to the fact that inspiration is experienced as evoked;one does not feel directly responsible for becoming inspired and ascribes responsibility to something beyond the self. Transcendence refers to gaining an awareness of better possibilities. The new awareness is concrete and vivid, as reflected in vision metaphors such as illumination and insight.Inspiration contains motivation evocation and transcendence three features, and is aroused by stimuli and to induce individuals tend to target, so inspiration can promote gratitude and purpose in life. Gratitude and purpose in life can promote subjective well-being, in this study discussed on the basis of this theory inspired by a sense of how the gratitude and purpose in life to influence the subjective well-being.In this study, Chinese college students Inspiration Scale, subjective well-being scale, PAN AS, purpose in life scale, Big Five Personality scale, the Gratitude, Resentment, and Appreciation Test questionnaire survey investigated 726 Chinese college students finds that gratitude the inspiration and life goals through the impact of subjective well being of the internal mechanism. The results show that:1. Students at the middle level of subjective well-being, although they did not behave themselves very satisfied with life, but in general, positive emotions than negative emotions.2. Inspiration has a close relationship between subjective well being. Inspiration and life satisfaction, positive affect was positively correlated and negative affect, negative.3. Gratitude and purpose in life play an intermediary role:a sense of inspiration to wear and life goals in the frequency and subjective well-being fully mediated between, gratitude, and life goals in strength and inspiration from the indirect SWB intermediary role between.
Keywords/Search Tags:Subjective Well-being, Inspiration, Gratitude, Purpose in Life
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