Anthropological Researches and Studies (Jun 2024)

DOES LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE IN ROMANIAN INFLUENCE SOCIAL AXIOMS, BASIC PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS, AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING?

  • Cătălin MOSOIA

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26758/14.1.5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14
pp. 52 – 72

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Objectives. This study explores the link between social axioms, basic psychological needs, and subjective well-being, considering Romanian participants’ linguistic performance, specifically whether different levels of linguistic performance influence social axioms and other variables analyzed in this study. Material and methods. 190 adult Romanian males and females (M = 40.25; SD = 11.16) completed the Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Frustration Scale—General Measure; Social Axioms Survey II; the World Health Organization Well-Being Index; and the Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire, a measure of linguistic performance in Romanian. The study analyzed two groups of participants: those with high- and low-level linguistic performance in Romanian. Results. Participants with high linguistic performance in Romanian tend to exhibit high values of social cynicism, social complexity, and fate control. Individuals with low linguistic performance tend to exhibit low scores at reward for application and religiosity. A t-test for independent groups reveals that fate control differs between the two groups of participants: fate control means scores of the high-level linguistic performance group (M = 22.87, SD = 5.378) are significantly higher (t = 2.308, df = 188, p = .022) than those of the low-level linguistic performance group (M = 21.04, SD = 5.515). Higher linguistic performance tends to be associated with psychological needs satisfaction, while lower levels are associated with frustration. High well-being scores are associated with the high-level linguistic performance group. Conclusions. Individuals with a strong sense of fate control tend to believe it is pointless to resist it, yet they acknowledge the presence of expectations. A balance in evaluating social situations contributes to subjective well-being for those with high linguistic ability.

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