Naslov
Relationships between self-liking, self-competence, optimism, and life goals

Autori
Milić, Marija : Marčinko, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, ostalo

Izvornik
Savremeni trendovi u psihologiji / Current Trends in Psychology / Popov, Boris - Novi Sad, 2019, 114-115

ISBN
978-86-6065-541-9

Skup
Savremeni trendovi u psihologiji = Current Trends in Psychology

Mjesto i datum
Novi Sad, Srbija, 24.10.2019. - 27.10.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
self-liking, self-competence, optimism, life goals

Sažetak
Self-esteem has an essential role in a person's life as it affects how person sees himself and his future (Taylor and Brown, 1988). It also includes beliefs about whether one can expect success or failure (Coopersmith, 1981). Optimism is a general tendency to believe that one will experience positive versus adverse outcomes in life (Scheier and Carver, 1985). Goals are internal representations of desired outcomes, events, and processes (Austin and Vancouver, 1996). The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between self-esteem (self-competence and self-liking), optimism, and life aspirations (life goals), and to investigate whether the relationship between self-esteem and life aspirations is mediated by optimism. The data were obtained from 390 undergraduate students (273 females) at the University of J. J. Strossmayer in Osijek, Croatia. The mean age of participants was M=20.5 (SD=1.4). Participants completed three questionnaires: The Self-liking/Self-competence Scale-Revised (SLCS-R ; Tafarodi and Swann, 2001), Life Orientation Test-Revised (LOT-R ; Scheier, Carver and Bridges, 1994) and Aspiration Index (Kasser and Ryan, 1996). With the Aspirations Index questionnaire, intrinsic and extrinsic aspirations were examined. Also, filling out the Aspiration Index questionnaire participants rate the importance of each aspiration to them, their beliefs about the likelihood of attaining it, and the degree to which they have already attained it. Two distinct correlation analyses were performed. One including intrinsic aspiration, optimism, self-liking, and self-competence. And, on the other, intrinsic aspirations were replaced by extrinsic aspiration variables. In both analysis correlations between life goals (beliefs and likelihood of attaining it) and other variables were positive. However, optimism has been shown to be a mediating variable between self-liking and the likelihood of attaining intrinsic goals. There was a significant indirect effect of self-liking on the likelihood of attaining intrinsic goals through optimism, b= 0.20 BCa CI [0.14, 0.28]. Also, optimism was a partial mediator variable between self-liking and achieved intrinsic goals (b=0.19, BCa CI [0.12, 0.28]). Similar results were found with optimism as a mediation variable between self-competence and judgment of the likelihood of attaining intrinsic goals on the one hand, and the perception of achieved intrinsic goals on the other. Interestingly, optimism was not a mediator in the analyses with the perception of achieved extrinsic goals. Optimism contributes to the judgment about the likelihood of attaining goals and the degree to which one perceives that goalis already attained. The drawn conclusion is that the optimism contributes to the explanation of the relationship between self-esteem and intrinsic aspirations specifically, for judgments of the likelihood of attaining goals and perception about the degree that one has accomplished the goals.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Psihologija

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