Positive Affect, Self-Efficacy, Goal-Related Variables, and Life Satisfaction: the Role of Goal Attainment and Domain Value

Tick Ngee Sim () and Zhi Jing Lui
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Tick Ngee Sim: National University of Singapore
Zhi Jing Lui: National University of Singapore

Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2022, vol. 17, issue 1, No 3, 57-69

Abstract: Abstract The present study sought to extend work on subjective well-being using Lent’s (2004) model. Specifically, the role of goal attainment in the academic and social domains, and the value accorded these domains, in the pathway to life satisfaction was examined using self-report data from 354 Singapore university students. Results demonstrated a role for goal attainment and domain value. For goal attainment, it was found to be able to predict life satisfaction and to play a mediating role in the pathway to life satisfaction – specifically for the link between domain goal progress and domain satisfaction – although the full serial mediation model (from positive affect to life satisfaction) was supported only for the social domain. As for domain value, a moderating role was found in one instance, where the value of benevolence in the social domain moderated the link between social satisfaction and life satisfaction. Overall, the inclusion of both goal attainment and domain value can thus enable a better understanding of subjective well-being.

Keywords: Life satisfaction; Domain satisfaction; Goal attainment; Goal progress; Domain value (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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