A Pathway Towards Subjective Well-Being for Turkish University Students: The Roles of Dispositional Hope, Cognitive Flexibility, and Coping Strategies

Date

2020-08-01

Author

Muyan-Yilik, Mine
Demir, Ayhan Gürbüz

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

431
views

0
downloads

The aim of the current study was to test a model that consisted of dispositional hope, cognitive flexibility, and coping strategies (avoidance, problem-focused coping, and seeking social support) towards subjective well-being of university students. The sample of the study included 1222 undergraduate students (601 females and 621 males) from a public university in Ankara, Turkey. In order to collect data, Dispositional Hope Scale, Cognitive Flexibility Inventory, Coping with Stress Scale, Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, Satisfaction with Life Scale, and a demographic information form were administered. Structural equation modeling was employed in order to test the proposed model. The results showed that the proposed model fitted the data along with explaining 57% of the total variance in subjective well-being. According to the findings, cognitive flexibility and problem-focused coping failed to have direct effects on subjective well-being, whereas dispositional hope, avoidance, and seeking social support had significant direct effects on subjective well-being. That is, university students who had higher levels of dispositional hope and engaged in more avoidance and seeking social support while coping with stress had higher levels of subjective well-being. Moreover, the findings presented non-significant indirect effects of dispositional hope and cognitive flexibility on subjective well-being through coping strategies. Findings, possible implications, limitations of the study and suggestions for further studies were discussed.

Subject Keywords

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56708

Journal

JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-019-00162-2

Collections

Department of Educational Sciences, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

A Model towards subjective well-being: the roles of dispositional and state hope, cognitive flexibility, and coping strategies Muyan Yılık, Mine; Demir, Ayhan Gürbüz; Department of Educational Sciences (2017) The aim of the current study was to test a model that consisted of dispositional hope, cognitive flexibility, state hope, and coping strategies (avoidance, problem-focused coping, and seeking social support) on subjective well-being of university students. The sample of the study included 1222 undergraduate students (601 females and 621 males) from a public university in Ankara, Turkey. In order to collect data, Dispositional Hope Scale, Cognitive Flexibility Inventory, State Hope Scale, Coping with Stress ...
Resilience in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Turkish Adolescents: An Ecological Perspective Sevil-Gulen, Ozden; Demir, Ayhan Gürbüz (SAGE Publications, 2020-09-01) The purpose of this study was to examine the role of self-esteem as mediator in the relationships between perceived parental acceptance/involvement, perceived peer social support, sense of school belonging and resilience in adolescents attending schools located in low socioeconomic districts. The sample of the study consisted of 1312 high school students (673 female, 639 male) between the ages of 13 to 19 (M = 15.67,SD = 1.18). Structural equation modeling was conducted to test the hypothesized model. Resul...
Burnout as a predictor of senior students' mindfulness Akyol, Elvan Yıldız; Demir, Ayhan Gürbüz (Informa UK Limited, 2019-02-17) The present study investigated to what extent mindfulness of senior students is predicted by their burnout levels. 449 senior students (349 females, 100 males) studying at the Faculty of Education participated in this study. Participants were chosen by purposive sampling method. The data was collected through a demographic data form, Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale, and Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Scale. Descriptive and inferential statistics and basic linear regression analysis were utilized by...
Direct and indirect effects of social support on psychological well-being Gençöz, Tülin (Scientific Journal Publishers Ltd, 2004-01-01) The aim of this study was to investigate the direct and indirect effects of social support on psychological well-being. Social support was evaluated under two different categories which were named as Aid-Related and Appreciation-Related Social Support. The first category was more related to potential for receiving help from others when needed, and being cared for by others, while the latter category was more related to being recognized by others as an efficient source of help and reassurance of worth. Under...
The effect of different impact exercise training on deformational behavior and functional adaptation of articular cartilage Çelik, Özgür; Korkusuz, Feza; Department of Physical Education and Sports (2010) The objective of the present study was to investigate deformational behavior and functional adaptation of articular cartilage by comparing the changes of biochemical osteoarthritis markers’ concentrations due to 30-min exercise after 12-weeks of regular high impact, impact or non-impact exercise. Blood samples were drawn from 44 healthy sedentary males immediately before, immediately after and 0.5 h after a 30-min moderate walking exercise. Osteoarthritis biomarkers’ (Serum COMP and CTX-I) concentrations we...

Citation Formats

M. Muyan-Yilik and A. G. Demir, “A Pathway Towards Subjective Well-Being for Turkish University Students: The Roles of Dispositional Hope, Cognitive Flexibility, and Coping Strategies,” JOURNAL OF HAPPINESS STUDIES, pp. 1945–1963, 2020, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/56708.