Национальный психологический журнал (Jun 2018)

Structural model of emotional and personal well-being

  • Larisa V. Karapetyan,
  • Galina A. Glotova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.11621/npj.2018.0206
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 30
pp. 46 – 56

Abstract

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Background. The paper is devoted to the development of a new approach to the study of a person’s well/ill-being. Changes in economy, politics and geopolitics, social sphere in Russia and the entire world have resulted in emerging features of modern life that significantly affect the well-being of a person. In this regard, psychology interest in this issue is rising. In Western psychology, two theoretical constructs of «subjective well-being» and «psychological well-being» are clearly differentiated, and the toolkit to correspond each construct is created. However, in the national psychological science, there is a variety of terms with borrowed foreign psychodiagnostical tools. The objective of this research is to develop a concept of emotional and personal well-being based on the integration of existing foreign and national psychology approaches to the study of well-being within a new theoretical construct and structural model, and also transforming the models in the research tool and its empirical verification. The paper considers emotional and personal well-being as an entire existential condition of harmony between the inner and outer world, initiated throughout the living process, activity and communication of a human. Design. Conducting a pilot study based on the sample of 117 subjects and the analysis of reference literature allowed to build the theoretical construct of «emotional well-being of a person» that includes nine parameters: the three of them include the positive emotional component of well-being, other three ones include positive personal component of well-being, and three components indicate ill-being. These parameters lie in the basis of the research methods for self-evaluation of emotional and personal well-being (SEPPWB) carried out using the sample of 2 229 subjects. Conclusion. The cluster analysis identified and described groups of respondents in terms of self-evaluation of emotional and personal well-being. The results obtained can be used both in research and in practical activities of a psychologist for diagnosing and optimizing the level of emotional and personal wellbeing.

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