Theoretical interpretation of the relationship between personal values and psychological well-being among high school students

Abstract

The problem of wellbeing of the person, main types of wellbeing is considered (social, economic, psychological), features of objective and subjective wellbeing are distinguished, the review of theoretical approaches to studying of psychological wellbeing within anthropocentric model is presented. The main works, of both foreign and domestic authors, devoted to the analysis of happiness as a significant component of subjective wellbeing are considered. The examples of successful people description received during the empirical researches are given. Two main approaches to understanding of an essence of wellbeing are allocated: hedonistic and eudemonistic. The multidimensional model of psychological wellbeing of the American psychologist Carol Riff developed within eudemonistic approach is presented. Attention is paid to social, social and psychological and personal factors of psychological wellbeing, with emphasis on the importance of values as regulators of social behavior. The short description of social and personal values specifics, roles of values in knowledge of social reality, in creation of the world image is given. The modified model of universal contents and structure of values of S.Schwartz, in which values act as evaluation criteria of various events, people and persons themselves, is presented. The assumption is formulated that personal values determine assessment of the wellbeing, give the opportunity to compare the desirable to real and by that to define for themselves the importance of the reached results. At the same time values give sense to achievements of the person which can affect features of the emotional experience and understanding of the wellbeing level. Need of the analysis of values and psychological wellbeing relations of the senior teenagers is proved as at this age there is an active formation of valuable structure of the personality.