Subjective well-being: theoretical interpretations, supporting factors and resources

- Коробка, Ілля Миколайович (orcid.org/0000-0001-7253-1896) (2022) Subjective well-being: theoretical interpretations, supporting factors and resources Науковий вісник Херсонського державного університету. Серія Психологічні науки, 2. pp. 85-93. ISSN 2312-3206

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Abstract

Purpose. On the basis of theoretical interpretations analysis of the subjective well-being phenomenon to identify the psychological factors and resources for its maintenance by young people who nowadays happen to be in conditions of social uncertainty. Methods: general theoretical methods of analysis, comparison, systematization, generalization, interpretation of different scientific approaches and empirical results. Results. The analysis of the well-being problem development has been carried out, the correlation between the concepts of subjective and psychological well-being has been considered. Subjective well-being is defined as a person's emotional and evaluative attitude towards their own life, their own personality, relationships with other people, and which is expressed through satisfaction with life in general and its individual spheres and is the basis for self-realization. The factors and psychological resources of subjective well-being maintenance have been analyzed, their specifics and differences between them have been determined. Adolescence is considered as a period when the trajectory of a person's well-being is being established. At the same time, it is noted that young people are one of the vulnerable social categories of population in the context of preserving their health and psychological well-being, especially in conditions of social instability and uncertainty. The psychological resources of an individual are presented as transformation means of such conditions perception, and as the ones which play a key role in mastering them and maintaining subjective well-being. Conclusions. Subjective well-being reflects the well-being of various aspects of entity and includes the person’s assessment and attitude towards themselves and their life. It also involves the subject’s activity which determines the desire for self-realization, confidence about the possibility and ability to influence situations, master them. Focusing on uncertainty as a special social life background complicates certain aspects of achieving subjective well-being by young people as one of the vulnerable social categories in the context of their well-being. The inclusion of tolerance to uncertainty in the context of the young people’s subjective well-being research as a psychological resource for its maintenance will become a perspective for further study.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	emotional and evaluative attitude to life, satisfaction with life, feeling of happiness, self-realization, handling uncertainty, tolerance to uncertainty
Subjects:	Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 1 Philosophy. Psychology Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 304 Social questions. Social practice. Cultural practice. Way of life (Lebensweise) Science and knowledge. Organization. Computer science. Information. Documentation. Librarianship. Institutions. Publications > 3 Social Sciences > 314/316 Society
Divisions:	The Institute of Social and Political Psychology > Department of Psychology of Political and Legal Relations
Depositing User:	PHD з псих Ілля Миколайович Коробка
Date Deposited:	10 Apr 2026 07:28
Last Modified:	10 Apr 2026 07:28
URI:	https://lib.iitta.gov.ua/id/eprint/748801

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