PSYCHOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF EMOTIONAL-PERSONAL WELL-BEING

Abstract

The matter of well-being is one of the most important theoretical and experimental areas in modern psychology. Based on the analysis of domestic and foreign researches, the author differentiates the notion of subjective and psychological well-being, reveals their interrelationship and their correlates with both objective and subjective factors. With the aim of creating a holistic multidimensional construct that would combine subjective and personal well-being in the context of unity, the author introduces the concept of "emotional-personal well-being”. The paper introduces a research methodology of self-evaluation of personal and emotional well-being (SPEW), which identifies and analyzes the psychological correlates of the phenomenon. According to the research, emotional and personal well-being components differ from each other in their specific correlations, but remain independent definitions of the "emotionally-personal well-being” constructs. However, these components form a certain homogeneous consistency. The correlation between the SPEW index and the indicators of standard psychodiagnostical techniques allows one to examine the emotional and personal well-being as an integrative, multidimensional phenomenon characterized by its inclusion in the structure of mental reality.

Keywords

• subjective well-being
• psychological well-being
• emotional-personal well-being
• psychological correlates of well-being