Happy & Healthy? Relationships between Well-being, Flourishing and Subjective Health in College Students
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
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| Description | The study investigates relationships between well-being, flourishing and subjective health in college students. The research sample consisted of 352 Czech college students (286 females and 66 males) of various fields of study. The respondents age was 19 to 30 years (Mean Age = 22.3, SD=2.29). We used Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF; Keyes, 2009), The Flourishing Scale and Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE; Diener, Wirtz, Tov, Kim-Prieto, Choi, Oishi, & Biswas-Diener, 2009). We also examined connections with the respondents' subjective health and demographic data. For data analysis we used descriptive statistics, analysis of variance and Pearson correlation coefficients. Results show that scores in all measures were positively and significantly intercorrelated, except for the Scale of Negative Experience. Respondents who perceived themselves completely healthy attained higher levels of both emotional and psychological well-being and experienced more positive emotions during the past month, compared to their less healthy peers. Students who lived in a long term relationships achieved higher levels of emotional well-being and flourishing than those who were single. Other variables, such as gender, age, field of study, religion and place of residence, did not show any significant relationships with the variables measured. |