He argues that toxic stress and instability on one end of the spectrum vs. overprotectiveness and lack of opportunities to overcome adversity on the opposite can lead to a deficit in developing the character traits «especially likely to
predict life satisfaction and high achievement.»
In family care and dependency and prejudice on the life satisfaction of regression analysis, the research results show that degree of family care and dependence have linear regression significant on life satisfaction, this show that the degree of family care and dependency can
predict life satisfaction to a certain extent.
Because contentment was hypothesized to
predict life satisfaction, and was found to
predict life satisfaction, intrapersonal spirituality, and overall social support, it was tested as a mediator as well.
As shown in Table 7, the path analysis indicated that intrapersonal spirituality both directly and indirectly
predicted life satisfaction, as well as all of the other variables.
Neither pride nor resilience directly
predicted life satisfaction, but were both linked to it through contentment.
Finally, while Western studies show that positive youth development
predicts life satisfaction and problem behaviour (e.g., Catalano et al. 2004), relevant studies are almost non-existent in the Chinese contexts and it remains unknown whether isolated Western findings can be generalized to the Chinese culture.
Most importantly, the present study contributed to existing knowledge by proposing a predictive model (Model 6), which demonstrates that positive youth development
predicts life satisfaction and problem behaviour, with life satisfaction and problem behaviour having a bidirectional relationship.
The objective was to investigate how teachers» assessments of children
predict life satisfaction in adolescence.
In conclusion teachers» assessments of children during the first school year
predicted life satisfaction in adolescence.
Not exact matches
Even more intriguing, people over 60 had better
life satisfaction than people 55 and up
predicted they would feel five years down the line.
The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world
predicted by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's
life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the
satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.»
We found that carrying student loan debt is almost as important as income in
predicting financial worry and
life satisfaction,» said Louis Tay, an assistant professor of psychological sciences, who studies the effects of income and money on happiness.
It says it can
predict users» leadership potential, personality, and «
satisfaction with
life.»
Regression analyses showed that positive well - being (e.g. happiness, positive affect and
life satisfaction) was
predicted by positive personality (high optimism, self - esteem and self - efficacy), high social support and low stressors and low negative coping scores.
As
predicted, communally oriented people reported greater self - esteem, more general
life satisfaction, greater relationship
satisfaction, and more love for humanity.
The authors note that «although they may be largely unwilling or unable to verbalize them, people's automatic evaluations of their partners
predict one of the most important outcomes of their
lives — the trajectory of their marital
satisfaction.»
Aside from the intrinsic motivation to have a good sex
life (i.e., good sex feels really, well, good), research has strongly established that sexual
satisfaction is closely tied to relationship
satisfaction.1 In longitudinal studies where couples are followed over time, sexual
satisfaction also
predicts, such that less sexual
satisfaction is tied to an increased chance of divorce.2 So, when it comes to relationship health, sex matters.
Additionally, adolescents» character strengths play different roles in
predicting their future
life satisfaction.
This study assessed whether distinct facets of spirituality, social support, and positive emotions differentially
predict resilience and
life satisfaction in emerging adulthood.
For instance, higher levels of hope
predict greater academic achievement, more positive physical health behaviours, and higher
life satisfaction, as well as decreased internalizing and externalizing behaviours.
This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of a brief self - compassion training program on self - compassion,
life satisfaction and positive and negative affect as well as to contribute new knowledge by investigating whether changes in self - compassion can significantly
predict changes in positive affect.
As
predicted (Hypothesis 8), when
life satisfaction was regressed on overall social support, social support was a significant, positive, and strong predictor of the criterion (see Table 6).
That being said reviewers ask for it and curiosity still
predicts measures of positive emotions,
life satisfaction, meaning in
life, and positive social interaction behaviors and relationship outcomes after controlling for openness.
Furthermore, SBP prospectively and significantly
predicted 5 % of
life satisfaction in teenagers 12 months later.
Do men's smiles now
predict future happy marriages and personal
life satisfaction?
In their Op - ed, they debunk four common myths about couples» sex
lives, highlighting important factors that
predict sexual frequency and relationship
satisfaction.
Using structural equation modeling, measures of family relationships, such as a person's own and his / her partner's marital adjustment, the amount of contact with children (and grandchildren, if applicable), and being a grandparent or not, served as independent variables to
predict each partner's
satisfaction with
life.
As with lower marital
satisfaction, based on linear regression analyses, the association between stressful
life events and infections showed that prenatal stressful
life events
predicted both higher frequency and a greater variety of infectious diseases during the first year of
life.
The main purpose of this study was to examine to what degree the level of maternal relationship
satisfaction during pregnancy
predicts the risk of infectious disease in children during their first year of
life.