TY - JOUR
T1 - Relationships between valued action and well-being across the transition from high school to early adulthood
AU - Williams, Kathryn E.
AU - Ciarrochi, Joseph
AU - Heaven, Patrick C. L.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Well-being promotes positive outcomes, which may include the ability to live according to one’s values, and values-congruent living may be a source of well-being. The current longitudinal study tested bi-directional relationships between subjective well-being and the extent to which values are seen as personally important, pressured by others, activated and successfully enacted. Participants were 468 young people (51.9% female) who responded to questionnaires in the final year of high school (Grade 12) and again approximately one year later. Regression analyses showed that life satisfaction predicted increasing value importance, activity and successful enactment. Valued action did not predict later well-being, when baseline levels of well-being were controlled. Positive changes in well-being over time were correlated with increased value importance, decreased pressure and greater success in enacting values. The findings build on a small body of research exploring the reciprocal interaction of well-being and valued action, and have implications for interventions.
AB - Well-being promotes positive outcomes, which may include the ability to live according to one’s values, and values-congruent living may be a source of well-being. The current longitudinal study tested bi-directional relationships between subjective well-being and the extent to which values are seen as personally important, pressured by others, activated and successfully enacted. Participants were 468 young people (51.9% female) who responded to questionnaires in the final year of high school (Grade 12) and again approximately one year later. Regression analyses showed that life satisfaction predicted increasing value importance, activity and successful enactment. Valued action did not predict later well-being, when baseline levels of well-being were controlled. Positive changes in well-being over time were correlated with increased value importance, decreased pressure and greater success in enacting values. The findings build on a small body of research exploring the reciprocal interaction of well-being and valued action, and have implications for interventions.
KW - adolescence
KW - autonomy (psychology)
KW - well, being
KW - young adults
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:30290
U2 - 10.1080/17439760.2014.920404
DO - 10.1080/17439760.2014.920404
M3 - Article
SN - 1743-9760
VL - 10
SP - 127
EP - 140
JO - Journal of Positive Psychology
JF - Journal of Positive Psychology
IS - 2
ER -