Research On The Relationship Between Wisdom And Well-being Of Kindergarten Teachers

How the relationship between wisdom and happiness?Will a person with high wisdom be happy?This article took preschool teachers as the research object,and used questionnaires to study the relationship between wisdom and preschool teachers'mental well-being,subjective well-being and spiritual well-being.The whole study consists two parts:Study 1 aimed to examine the validity and reliability of the Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure(General)in Preschool Teachers.In the primary measurement,135 preschool teachers were tested for item analysis and exploratory factor analysis.A total of 350 preschool teachers were tested in formal measurement for confirmatory factor analysis and reliability,validity examining.58 of them were retested 3 weeks later to examine test-retest reliability.Chinese Revision of The Spiritual Health and Life-Orientation Measure(General)is a reliable and valid instrument,and can be used to measure preschool teachers.Study 2:350 preschool teachers were tested by SHALOM Spiritual Well-Being Questionnaire(general),Integrative Wisdom Scale,IWS,the Satisfaction with Life Scale,the Positive Affect and Negative Affect Scale(revision),and Ryff psychological Well-Being Scale,The results show that:(1)The average score of preschool teachers'wisdom is generally 4.40,which is expressed as comparative wisdom;(2)The well-being of preschool teachers is in the range of "general happiness"and "comparative happiness";(3)Regression analysis by intelligence as an independent variable and happiness as a dependent variable found that:Moral virtue(t?6.36,p<0.001)could explain 10%of information in life satisfaction;Smartness(t ?5.83,p<0.001)can explain 19%of positive emotions;Smartness(t=9.52,p<0.001)and Moral virtue(t=-3.93,p<0.001)jointly indicate 30%of information in psychological well-being.Wisdom is an effective but not decisive factor of well-being.