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Theoretical framework and hypothesized relationships of Study 2. Note. aConstruct and relationship was already included and tested in Study 1. The arrows indicate the proposed relationships; dashes indicate that a negative relationship was hypothesized
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Orientations to well-being, including personal values, motives and goals regarding one’s well-being are often related to the experience of well-being. At the same time, studies show positive effects of mindfulness on well-being. It is conceivable, that the strength of the connection between well-being orientations and experiences depend on the degr...
Citations
... Thus, mindfulness can fulfill these three basic psychological needs and further enhance the individual's well-being in both the hedonic and eudaimonic domains (Ryan et al., 2008). The mechanism of mindfulness that is useful for the well-being of people with a hedonic orientation is an increase in the enjoyment of experiences (Richter & Hunecke, 2021). Mindfulness can help increase the enjoyment of hedonic experiences (Hong et al., 2014). ...
... Studies demonstrate that there are correlations between flow, mindfulness, and eudaimonia (Richter & Hunecke, 2021;Waterman, 1993). In the flow experience, individuals interact with the environment more voluntarily and participate in the activity with more intensity (Nusair & Parsa, 2011). ...
... Mindfulness is associated with maintaining self-awareness during an activity; in that sense, it can be contrasted with ow (97). Furthermore, as Csikszentmihalyi's nine-dimensional model of ow (79). ...
Background
The present study aims to investigate whether and how mindfulness leads to the flow experience in high-pressure situations during the coronavirus pandemic peak, especially in high-risk, challenging contexts such as emergencies. therefore, the authors aim to expand existing knowledge about experiencing flow at work, specifically in the crisis context of the COVID-19 period, when challenges convert to hindrance demands. Before examining the possible processes and mechanisms in this relationship, we examined the mediating role of two variables: psychological capital and coping competence.
Method
The statistical population of this study consists of all employees of emergency centers in Mashhad, Iran; there were 550 at the time of the study. Using a simple random sampling method and the Morgan table, a sample of 220 people was considered. A structural equation model, AMOS, and SPSS software were used to analyze the collected data.
Result
The results emphasize that among employees who experienced mindfulness, an optimal experience did not necessarily occur, specifically in those situations in which challenge stressors become hindrance stressors. Although the association of mindfulness and coping competence was verified, its association with flow through coping competence was rejected. It is verified that mindfulness would be associated with flow through psychological capital.
Conclusion
The study extends our understanding of occurring flow at high-risk work environments in which challenges are not motivational. The authors studied the experience of flow in a work context with challenges that appear in the form of hindrance demands, different from the previous ones that have studied flow experience in challenging and motivating contexts such as sports contexts, including mountain climbing, surfing, and similar cases. In addition, there was no consensus in different past studies about associating mindfulness with flow experience. Therefore, in this case, further study had been left to future studies. Moreover, the process of this relationship through the mediating role of psychological capital and coping competence has not been investigated in previous studies.
... Theoretical research suggests that eudaimonic motivation often involves clarifying one's true self, seeking valuable goals, and pursuing the realization of potential, all of which contribute directly or indirectly to one's experience of life meaning [28]. Empirical studies have also shown that eudaimonic motivation is positively related to the experience of meaning [29][30][31][32]. Changing levels of eudaimonic motivation can increase one's sense of meaning and enhance an individual's experience [15]. ...
... Meaning experience mediates the relationship between eudaimonic motivation and the subjective well-being of college athletes. This result is consistent with Huta's theoretical elaboration of eudaimonic motivation [28] and highly consistent with previous empirical findings [21,30,32,34]. In a theoretical analysis of individual motivation in life, Huta argues that eudaimonic motivation often involves authenticity, meaning, excellence and growth. ...
Subjective well-being is an essential indicator for evaluating the quality of life of college athletes. According to self-determination theory, eudaimonic motivation is a positive psychological characteristic that is supposed to have a favorable influence on college athletes’ acquisition of subjective well-being. In order to examine the relationship between the two and test the mediating effects of meaning searching and meaning experience, this study investigated the relevant data of 593 college athletes from four different provinces in China. The findings are as follows: (1) the direct effect of eudaimonic motivation on college athletes’ subjective well-being was significant and positive. (2) The mediating effect of meaning searching between eudaimonic motivation and subjective well-being was nonsignificant. (3) However, meaning experience mediated the positive influence of eudaimonic motivation on subjective well-being. (4) Eudaimonic motivation was related indirectly and positively to subjective well-being via the chain-mediating effect of meaning searching and meaning experience. The present study provides empirical evidence for the relationship between positive psychological characteristics and the subjective well-being of college athletes and suggests that educators look for positive qualities to cultivate from the perspective of positive psychology, which can help to prevent psychological disorders and improve the well-being of college athletes.
... Mindfulness is associated with maintaining self-awareness during an activity; in that sense, it can be contrasted with ow (97). Furthermore, as Csikszentmihalyi's nine-dimensional model of ow (79). ...
Background
The present study aims to investigate whether and how mindfulness leads to the flow experience in high-pressure situations during the coronavirus pandemic peak, especially in high-risk, challenging contexts such as emergencies. So, the authors aim to expand existing knowledge about experiencing flow at work, specifically in the crisis context of the COVID-19 period, when challenges convert to hindrance demands. Before examining the possible processes and mechanisms in this relationship, we examined the mediating role of two variables: psychological capital and coping competence.
Method
The statistical population of this study consists of all employees of emergency centers in Mashhad, Iran; there were 550 at the time of the study. Using a simple random sampling method and the Morgan table, a sample of 220 people was considered. A structural equation model, AMOS, and SPSS software were used to analyze the collected data.
Result
The results emphasize that among employees who experienced mindfulness, an optimal experience did not necessarily occur, specifically in those situations in which challenge stressors become hindrance stressors. Although the association of mindfulness and coping competence was verified, its association with flow through coping competence was rejected. It is verified that mindfulness would be associated with flow through psychological capital.
Conclusion
The study extends our understanding of occurring flow at high-risk work environments in which challenges are not motivational. The authors studied the experience of flow in a work context with challenges that appear in the form of hindrance demands, different from the previous ones that have studied flow experience in challenging and motivating contexts such as sports contexts, including mountain climbing, surfing, and similar cases. In addition, there was no consensus in different past studies about associating mindfulness with flow experience. Therefore, in this case, further study had been left to future studies. Moreover, the process of this relationship through the mediating role of psychological capital and coping competence has not been investigated in previous studies.
... Under the purpose-to-agent frame, people may find meaning in life by pursuing goals that are meaningful to them (Noguchi, 2020). Eudaimonic and hedonic motives represent an individual's different life purposes and value orientations, which have different relationships with the meaning in life (Richter & Hunecke, 2021;Seligman, 2002;Waterman, 2007). Huta (2016) pointed out that eudaimonic motives often involve four aspects: clarifying one's true self and values, seeking goals that are truly important and valuable, pursuing high standards and quality in ethics, behavior, and achievement, and fulfilling one's unique Content courtesy of Springer Nature, terms of use apply. ...
... However, this trend was not observed in the path mediated by negative emotion, so only Hypothesis 3a in Hypothesis 3 was verified. Furthermore, the predictive power of eudaimonic motives was higher than that of hedonic motives in all chain-mediated paths involving meaning in life (seeking or experience) and emotions (positive or negative), confirming hypothesis 4. The relationship between the variables involved in the above results was roughly consistent with previous relevant theories and empirical findings (Henderson et al., 2013;Huta, 2016;Huta & Ryan, 2010;Noguchi, 2020;Richter & Hunecke, 2021), reflecting differences in the mechanisms by which the two happiness motivations influence life satisfaction and further explaining why eudaimonic motives can predict life satisfaction more strongly than hedonic motives. ...
Eudaimonia and hedonia are two different sources of motivation for people to pursue happiness. Previous studies have suggested that eudaimonic motivation is a more effective predictor of happiness than hedonic motivation, but little is known about the reasons for this. The present study attempts to investigate the secret of eudaemonists who experience more happiness by comparing the differences in the mechanisms by which the two happiness motives affect life satisfaction. To this end, the study randomly selected 852 university students from 19 different provinces in China to examine the relationships between eudaimonic and hedonic motives, meaning-seeking, meaning experience, positive emotions, negative emotions, and life satisfaction. Structural equation model (SEM) was used to test the mediating effect of meaning in life and emotion between happiness motivation and life satisfaction. The results showed that (1) the predictive effect of eudaimonic motives on life satisfaction was much higher than that of hedonic motives. (2) The difference in the predictive effect between the two kinds of motivation was due to the different influencing mechanisms. Eudaimonic motives promoted life satisfaction through meaning or the combination of meaning and emotion, while hedonic motivation promoted life satisfaction through positive emotion. The effect size of many mediating paths of eudaimonic motives was large and the direction (positivity and negativity) was consistent, while that of hedonic motives was smaller and had a larger suppressing effect. (3) Eudaimonic motives had a negative impact on life satisfaction through meaning-seeking, but this negative impact was reversed when individuals enhanced the experience of meaning through meaning-seeking. (4) Hedonic motives did not predict the reduction of negative emotions, nor did they improve individual life satisfaction by reducing negative emotions. To some extent, the research results reflected the internal mechanism of individual pursuit of happiness, revealed the reason why eudaimonic motives can bring more happiness, and suggests that it is very important to understand individuals’ motivation for happiness pursuit.
... In other words, it is to be said that possible reperception of emotions in a constructive way could be a determiner of the effect of mindfulness on wellbeing. Richter and Hunecke (2021) have suggested that striving of mindfulness is related to a set of psychological processes that boost wellbeing. Hence, it remains a prerogative to understand the primary process of emotion regulation that may mediate the pathway of conscious mindfulness and better wellbeing. ...
... Happiness is the level on the basis of which an individual evaluates the overall quality of their life as favorable, which is generally considered to be the ultimate goal in life. Happiness depends on many things, including income, the labor market, job characteristics, health, leisure, family, social relations, security, freedom, moral values, and many others [33][34][35][36][37]. ...
The sustainability of rural settlements in Serbia has become the main focus of strategic rural development planning. Although it is still difficult to measure the quality of life of the citizens of the Republic of Serbia, preliminary results show that it is necessary to go beyond the GDP as the only or one of its most important indicators. A multidimensional approach and analysis at the local level is necessary for more comprehensive insight into quality of life in order to avoid erroneous or simplified conclusions. Striving to provide more detailed insight into the attitudes and needs of the local population, this research uses a qualitative approach. Subjective measures of how people feel and function in everyday life can predict future reactions, many of which are in the domain of the interests of local public services. The aim of the research is to apply measurement indicators through six dimensions of well-being in order to determine to what extent the inhabitants of rural communities are satisfied with some indicators and how they assess their own well-being. The research results illustrate the importance of understanding the needs of the local population and the perception of overall life experience in monitoring balanced rural development. The research can be adapted and applied to any rural community. Thus, only by developing a participatory approach can one strive for community-based rural development.
This study aimed to study 1) To study the mental well-being circumstances and analyze the problems of multicultural meditation practitioners, 2) To develop the process of mindfulness-based practice for the mental well-being of multicultural meditation practitioners, and 3) To evaluate the process of mindfulness-based practice for the mental well-being of multicultural meditation practitioners. The research utilizes a mixed-methods approach structured across three phases. 1) qualitative research, 2) qualitative research, and 3) quantitative research(questionnaires for pre-test and post-test to measure the mental well-being of multicultural practitioners) and qualitative research (in-depth interview). There were 30 participants who represent various cultural backgrounds, including different religions, languages, and ethnicities.
Introduction: Pregnancy is a significant transitional life experience. It can also be one of the most stressful experiences in life and some women go on to develop postpartum depression. Adopting mindfulness techniques during childbirth may allow women to experience less labor pain and require fewer medical interventions, which improve the mother's health. Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness in reducing childbirth stress in primigravid women in Saudi Arabia. Methods: The researcher recruited primigravid women from an antenatal clinic in a government hospital in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. The study adopted a qualitative interpretive descriptive design, using individual interviews to collect the data before conducting thematic content analysis using NVivo 10.1 software. Results: Five key themes emerged from the data: (a) stress reduction, (b) recognition of thoughts and feelings, (c) life satisfaction , (d) insufficient knowledge leads to challenges, and (e) empowerment of a spiritual aspect. Conclusions: Mindfulness is an effective technique that supports a mother's physical and psychological well-being.
