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Optimism,self esteem and subjective wellbeing among trainees under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
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December 2015

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Pratyush Kumar Shrivastava

Subjective well-being (SWB) as a psychological construct is a relatively new field of positive psychology. This study sought to explore the effect of personality variables on the components of subjective well-being. Personality variables were optimism and self-esteem. This study is based on a sample of 400 trainees under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. They responded in Hindi to Global Life Satisfaction Scale, Contentment Scale, scale of positive and negative experiences, Optimism Scale and Self-esteem Scale. ANOVAs result indicates that optimism and self- esteem have significant effect on global life satisfaction, positive and negative affect while self-esteem has significant effect on contentment. The results have implications for enhancing subjective wellbeing among specific groups.

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... Thus, under this conceptualization, contentment has been viewed as the positive affective basis for more global well-being. In the lives of people, contentment functions as an antidote to feeling of need, jealousy, and miserliness (Srivastava and Singh 2015). Therefore, given that optimists are those who expect favorable outcomes in life, and in fact, strive to realize those expectations and even subjectively experience the desired outcomes under given circumstances (Scheier et al. 1994), and moreover, contentment being an affective basis for more global well-being (Srivastava and Singh 2015), it does make sense that the significant structural path from religiosity to contentment was found through optimism and well-being. ...

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Religiosity and Contentment among Teachers in the Philippines during COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Effects of Resilience, Optimism, and Well-Being
Optimism,self esteem and subjective wellbeing among trainees under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan

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Pratyush Kumar Shrivastava