A person‐centered evaluation of subjective well‐being using a latent profile analysis: Associations with negative life events, distress, and emotion regulation strategies

Abstract

The present study examined the structure of subjective well-being (SWB) using a person-centered approach, and tested whether SWB profiles differed in a number of self-reported negative life events, emotional distress, and cognitive emotion regulation strategies. The sample included a total of 945 undergraduate students from Serbia (78% female, M age = 20.14 years). A 3-step latent profile analysis with partial conditional independence revealed four profiles, which have been tentatively labeled: low SWB (a combination of low life satisfaction, low positive affect, and high negative affect), mixed SWB (moderate to high life satisfaction, moderate to low positive affect, high negative affect), moderately low SWB (low life satisfaction, moderate to low positive affect, moderate negative affect), high SWB (high life satisfaction, high positive affect, low negative affect). A comparison of SWB profiles applied to symptoms of emotional distress, along with the number of self-reported negative life events and emotion regulation strategies, offered support to the validity of four SWB profiles. Our findings suggest that a person-centered perspective might be a valuable tool for understanding the structure of SWB.

Trajectories of burnout and psychological well‐being among psychotherapists during the Covid‐19 pandemic: Results of a 1‐year prospective study

“…The results were in accordance with our first hypothesis: for the case of burnout and SWB level, we observed different classes of trajectories among psychotherapists during the 1‐year period. Our findings bring an important argument in favour of the proponents of a person‐centred approach, both in burnout research (e.g., Leiter & Maslach, 2016; Mäkikangas & Kinnunen, 2016) and in the SWB area (Busseri & Sadava, 2011; Lazić et al., 2021). Regarding burnout studies, it seems that this syndrome is not necessarily a stable syndrome, which has been found in many previous longitudinal studies adopting a variable‐centred design (e.g., Brouwers & Tomic, 2000; Schaufeli & Enzmann, 1998; Taris et al., 2005).…”

“…Our results may provide some important theoretical and clinical implications. First, our study underlines the need for further application of a prospective, person‐centred approach in burnout (Leiter & Maslach, 2016) and SWB research (Lazić et al., 2021; Li et al., 2022). This methodological design may bring us closer to understanding how burnout and SWB change over time while identifying the factors responsible for these changes.…”

“…Our results may provide some important theoretical and clinical implications. First, our study underlines the need for further application of a prospective, person-centred approach in burnout (Leiter & Maslach, 2016) and SWB research (Lazić et al, 2021;Li et al, 2022).…”

“…Furthermore, another advantage of implementing the person‐centred approach, both on the theoretical and practical levels, can be found in the research on SWB. However, this topic is still much less examined when compared with burnout (e.g., Lazić et al., 2021; Rzeszutek et al., 2019). Further investigation of the heterogeneity of SWB and how it changes over time (e.g., Li et al., 2022; Moreno‐Agostino et al., 2021) may help us to better understand the complex structure of SWB.…”

Probe into the Positive Factors of College Students' Subjective Well-being

“…Individuals with different levels of subjective well-being shows significant differences in these aspects. Lazić Research on the relationship between individual subjective well-being and emotions, emotion regulation modes [16]. The results showed that there are significant differences in the correlation between individual subjective well-being and negative life events, emotional distress and cognitive emotion regulation strategies.…”