Circumstances of Well-Being Among Czech College Students

Abstract

This chapter presents the results of a study that concentrates on the relations between well-being and personality characteristics, values, social desirability, self-concept and self-determining needs in a sample of 535 Czech college students aged 19-29. The questionnaire battery was selected to capture four levels of personality as suggested in Sheldon's (2004) multiple levels of personality model, namely, self/narratives, goals/motives, traits/dispositions and universal needs. Findings highlight a strong association between life satisfaction and self-acceptance and between satisfaction and environmental mastery. Relations were also found between life satisfaction and personality dimensions, basic psychological needs, values, self-construal and social desirability. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)