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Circumstances of Well-Being Among Czech College Students

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Well-Being and Cultures

Part of the book series: Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology ((CAPP,volume 3))

Abstract

Objectives. The study focused on relations between well-being and personality characteristics, values, social desirability, self-concept and self-determining needs in a sample of Czech college students.

Methods. The analyses were conducted using Satisfaction with Life Scale, Schwartz Value Survey, Scales of Psychological Well-Being, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Crowne-Marlowe Social Desirability Scale, Self-Construal Scale, NEO FFI and self-determining needs.

Results. The data (N = 535) revealed strong association between life satisfaction and self-acceptance and between satisfaction and environmental mastery. Interesting relations were also found between life satisfaction and Big Five factors, self-determining needs (competency, autonomy and relatedness), conformity, safety and benevolence within the Schwartz value system, independency (Self-Construal Scale) and social desirability.

Limits of the Study. The study was conducted as part of the nationwide research focusing on college students’ well-being. Only a part of the results could be compared to the results of the total sample, as so far there has been only part of the results published.

The study was funded by the Czech Science Foundation, project no. P407/11/2226.

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    The Schwartz system correlates, apart from other areas, with delinquency, political party preferences, choice of field of study, learning how to use technological innovations, readiness to work, authoritarian attitudes, egalitarian attitudes in relation to gender, creativity, risk-involving behaviour, willingness to help, identification with own nation, etc.

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  1. Institute of Psychology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

    Iva Šolcová

  2. Politických Vězňů 7, Praha 1, 110 00, Czech Republic

    Iva Šolcová

  3. National Institute of Public Health, Prague, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Kebza

  4. Šrobárova 49, Praha 10, 100 00, Czech Republic

    Vladimír Kebza

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Šolcová, I., Kebza, V. (2013). Circumstances of Well-Being Among Czech College Students. In: Knoop, H., Delle Fave, A. (eds) Well-Being and Cultures. Cross-Cultural Advancements in Positive Psychology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4611-4_10

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