Characteristics of psychological well-being in mature individuals
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31548/hspedagog14(4).2023.159-163Abstract
In today's era of individuals being integrated into numerous social groups, aimed at mastering and performing various social roles, processing vast amounts of information, making rapid decisions, and overcoming challenges that require an expansion of adaptive resources while increasing psychological tension, the issue of psychological well-being in mature individuals has become particularly relevant. Objective. This study is associated with a theoretical analysis of the problem of psychological well-being and empirical research into its main components in mature age. Methods. To achieve the set objective, we used a combination of methods: theoretical methods - analysis, systematization, synthesis of scientific sources; empirical methods - surveys, interviews; psychodiagnostic methods - K. Zamfir Professional Activity Motivation Questionnaire, and the WAM (Well-being, Activity, Mood) questionnaire. The study involved 30 individuals aged 35 to 50 years. The results of the empirical study on the peculiarities of psychological well-being (motivation for professional activity, emotional state) revealed that internal motivation and external negative motivation dominate in mature individuals. Most respondents prioritize deriving satisfaction from both the process and the outcome of their professional activity, as well as full self-realization within it. A significant portion of the sample is motivated by the desire to avoid criticism and potential discomfort in their professional activities. Future prospects for further developments are seen in the development and testing of a program for optimizing the psychological well-being of mature individuals through physical culture means.
References
Skrypchenko O. V., Dolynska L. V., Ohorodniichuk Z. V. (ed.) (2012) Vikova ta pedahohichna psykholohiia [Age and pedagogical psychology]. Kyiv: Caravela (in Ukrainian).
Gavrilkevich V., Firstova O. (2023) Emotsiini stany osobystosti: teoretychne doslidzhennia fenomenu [Emotional states of personality: a theoretical study of the phenomenon]. Psychology Travelogs, no. 2. pp. 41–50 (in Ukrainian).
Golovina K.O. Prisnyakova L.M. (2021) Psykholohichnyi stan osobystosti [Psychological state of the individual]. Actual problems of jurisprudence and psychology: materials of the All-Ukrainian Science and Practice. conf. (Dnipro, September 30, 2021). Dnipro: VNPZ "DSU". pp. 62-69 (in Ukrainian).
Kyrylenko T. S. (2007) Psykholohiia: emotsiina sfera osobystosti : navch. posibnyk [Psychology: the emotional sphere of personality: academic. manual]. Kyiv: Lybid (in Ukrainian).
Shapar V. B. (2005) [Modern explanatory psychological dictionary]. Kharkiv: Prapor (in Ukrainian).
Linley P. A., Maltb J., Woodc A. M., Osborne G., Hurling R. (2009) Measuring happiness: The higher order factor structure of subjective and psychological wellbeing measures. Personality and Individual Differences, no. 47. рр. 878–884.
Ryff C. D. (2000) The structure of psychological well-being revisited. Journal motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychology, no. 55. рр. 68–78 (in USA).
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Relationship between right holders and users shall be governed by the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution – non-commercial – Distribution On Same Conditions 4.0 international (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0):https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.uk
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
