IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ibn/ijpsjl/v6y2014i4p89.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Subjective Happiness as Mediator between Personal Growth Initiative and Life Satisfaction in Adolescents

Author

Listed:
  • Sarita Sood
  • Richa Gupta

Abstract

Purpose- This study was carried out to assess the mediating role of subjective happiness in relationship between personal growth initiative and life satisfaction. The relationship between personal growth initiative, subjective happiness and life satisfaction was also explored. Basic procedure- The study involved 200 adolescent students from Jammu and Rajauri (India). Pearson’s correlation, regression analysis and Sobel test were used for statistical analysis. Main findings- Results revealed positive relationship between all the three variables in study. Partial mediation role of subjective happiness was confirmed in this study. Principle conclusions- The findings of study reveal that efforts made to seek change develop feelings of happiness which in turn is responsible for life satisfaction. The results obtained emphasize on developing certain interventions to enhance subjective happiness in adolescent students for greater satisfaction in life. Findings of the study might be particularly useful for education system.

Suggested Citation

  • Sarita Sood & Richa Gupta, 2014. "Subjective Happiness as Mediator between Personal Growth Initiative and Life Satisfaction in Adolescents," International Journal of Psychological Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 6(4), pages 1-89, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:ijpsjl:v:6:y:2014:i:4:p:89
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/download/38792/23015
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijps/article/view/38792
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Celinda Stevic & Rose Ward, 2008. "Initiating Personal Growth: The Role of Recognition and Life Satisfaction on the Development of College Students," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 89(3), pages 523-534, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Valter Afonso Vieira, 2022. "The mediating role of happiness on the effect of locomotion and effort on salesperson’s performance and cross-selling: the case of financial insurance," Journal of Financial Services Marketing, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 27(4), pages 346-359, December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Camille Jones & Sukkyung You & Michael Furlong, 2013. "A Preliminary Examination of Covitality as Integrated Well-Being in College Students," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 111(2), pages 511-526, April.
    2. Ingrid K. Weigold & Arne Weigold & Shu Ling & Migyeong Jang, 2021. "College as a Growth Opportunity: Assessing Personal Growth Initiative and Self-determination Theory," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 22(5), pages 2143-2163, June.
    3. Cara Jonker & Eileen Koekemoer & Jan Nel, 2015. "Exploring a Positive SWB Model in a Sample of University Students in South Africa," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 121(3), pages 815-832, April.
    4. Berta Schnettler & Marianela Denegri & Horacio Miranda & José Sepúlveda & Ligia Orellana & Galo Paiva & Klaus Grunert, 2015. "Family Support and Subjective Well-Being: An Exploratory Study of University Students in Southern Chile," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 122(3), pages 833-864, July.
    5. James J. Q. Low & Oluremi B. Ayoko, 2020. "The Emergence of Spiritual Leader and Leadership in Religion-Based Organizations," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 161(3), pages 513-530, January.
    6. Gelbrich, Katja & Hagel, Julia & Orsingher, Chiara, 2021. "Emotional support from a digital assistant in technology-mediated services: Effects on customer satisfaction and behavioral persistence," International Journal of Research in Marketing, Elsevier, vol. 38(1), pages 176-193.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ibn:ijpsjl:v:6:y:2014:i:4:p:89. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Canadian Center of Science and Education (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.