Exploring well-being among individuals with different life purposes in a Chinese context

Wang, Tong; Yin, Jun; You, Xuqun; Huang, Xi Ting

doi:10.1080/17439760.2019.1663253

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“…Despite its richness, research focusing on purpose content has only rarely investigated how different kinds of purposes relate to well-being. Among the small number of qualitative and mixed-methods studies that have assessed well-being alongside purpose content (e.g., Bundick, et al, 2019;Wang et al, 2021), many have reduced the variety of aspirational contents articulated by participants into a much smaller number of purpose categories to enable rigorous comparison. It is not uncommon for researchers in this area to apply a binary classification strategy by which the aspirations participants disclose either meet predefined criteria for purpose or risk being labeled as either "non-purposeful" or omitted from analysis (e.g., Malin et al, 2019;Morton et al, 2019).…”

Section: Purpose In Life: Two Distinct Treatments In Psychological Inquirymentioning

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Are All Purposes Worth Having? Integrating Content and Strength in Purpose Research

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A prevailing belief is that a sense of purpose in life is worth having, based on evidence that it predicts greater psychological functioning, social relationships, physical health, and longevity. Yet, whether the benefits of having a sense of purpose persist across all contents – or the actual substance of one’s aspirations – lingers as a critical blind spot within this literature. Here, we contend that an ecological systems perspective is needed to contextualize how purpose content either enables or extinguishes the benefits of feeling purposeful. We nominate congruence (the fit between a purpose and ecological conditions) and feasibility (the ease with which a purpose can be pursued) as measurable features of purpose content that fuse people and contexts and potentiate whether a sense of purpose proves favorable. Greater congruence and feasibility should orchestrate support for purpose-related goals, actions, and justifications, thus amplifying the likelihood of positive outcomes. Practical strategies for integrating the congruence and feasibility of individuals’ aspirations within the study of purpose are discussed.

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“…It indicates that adolescents with higher levels of four life purposes have a more heightened sense of meaning and life satisfaction. 14,58 The calibration validity is good. Further analysis shows that the adolescents who take family well-being as their life purpose have a higher sense of life meaning and life satisfaction than those who take the other three life goals as their life purpose, indicating that family plays a vital role in pursuing happiness in Chinese adolescents.…”

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Development and Validation of the Youth Purpose Orientation Scale Among Chinese Sample

Wang¹,

Gai²,

Li³

2022

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Introduction Purpose orientation has an important impact on the development of adolescence. An effective instrument is needed to describe the purpose orientation of youth. The aim of this research is to develop a reliable and valid scale to measure life purpose orientations of youth. Methods Study 1 established a preliminary pool of items based on a literature review, an open-form questionnaire, and some expert opinions. Study 2 used exploratory factor analysis and performed internal consistency and reliability tests. The sample consisted of 442 young Chinese students, divided into males (49.3%) and females (50.7%) with an age range of 13 to 22 years. Study 3 performed confirmatory factor analysis and tested the scale’s calibration validity and test-retest reliability. The confirmatory sample comprised 91,635 young Chinese students, divided into males (43.2%) and females (56.5%) with an age range of 12 to 23 years. The calibration validity sample consisted of 572 participants, aged 12 to 22. The test-retest reliability sample consisted of 200 participants. Results Through exploratory factor analysis, the four-factor structure revealed contains personal growth, social promotion, family well-being, and personal well-being purpose orientations. This four factor-structure revealed a 65.26% cumulative variance. The four factors’ alpha reliability was 0.89 for personal growth, 0.87 for social promotion, 0.86 for family well-being, and 0.87 for personal well-being, respectively. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model fitting index had a good four-factor structure. The calibration validity and test-retest reliability were acceptable. Conclusion These findings demonstrated that the 19-item findings demonstrated that the Youth Purpose Orientation Scale is a valid and reliable measure. In future research, it can be used to measure purpose orientation in youth.

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“…Though previous research showed that moral character shaped subjective well-being ( 35 ) and predicted life satisfaction ( 36 ), little is known about the influence of good personality on social well-being. Concerning social well-being, amongst few studies conducted in Chinese, one found its correlation with big five personality ( 37 ) and another with family harmony and social dedication ( 38 ). Good personality is rooted in the Chinese cultural context, and examining the contribution of good personality to social well-being can provide intervention studies with important targets to promote social well-being.…”

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Good personality and social well-being: The roles of orientation to happiness

Liu

Jiao

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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IntroductionPositive personality traits have been associated with personal well-being in previous research. However, the pathways through which positive personality may affect social well-being remain unclear. The present study hypothesized that the cognitive strategies for achieving well-being (i.e., orientation to happiness) mediate the association between good personality and social well-being in the Chinese culture.MethodsA survey including the Good Personality Questionnaire, Social Well-being Scales, and Orientations to Happiness was administered to 1,503 Chinese secondary school students and adults.ResultsThe results indicated that orientation to meaning mediated the relation between good personality and social well-being, but not orientation to pleasure.DiscussionThis is in line with the normative well-being model and the cognition instrumental model of well-being, which contributes to developing more targeted interventions to promote social well-being in the Chinese cultural.

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Exploring well-being among individuals with different life purposes in a Chinese context

Cited by 13 publications

References 45 publications

Are All Purposes Worth Having? Integrating Content and Strength in Purpose Research

Are All Purposes Worth Having? Integrating Content and Strength in Purpose Research

Development and Validation of the Youth Purpose Orientation Scale Among Chinese Sample

Good personality and social well-being: The roles of orientation to happiness

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