HEALTH INDICATORS AS FACTORS OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF HIGHTER EDUCATION STUDENTS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/psyspu/2025.1.19Keywords:
factors of subjective well-being; health levels; resilience; goal in life; attitude to life situationAbstract
The research revealed significant differences in health indicators in the groups of ‘subjectively well-off’ and ‘subjectively disadvantaged’ higher education students. Subjectively well-off applicants are distinguished by lower levels of anxiety and depression, higher self-assessment of physical and mental health; higher resilience, including such indicators as engagement, control and risk taking; a more pronounced purpose in life and its orientation, including prosocial; greater acceptance of the situation, more optimistic assessment of it, greater activity in the situation and its assessment as easier, greater externalisation in assessing the situation.According to different life situations, levels of physical, mental, personal and social health are distinguished. Applicants with a high level of subjective well-being assess all levels of health significantly higher than those with a low level. The hypothesis that different levels of health characteristics have different contributions to the subjective well-being of applicants was confirmed: in order of decreasing influence, resilience and purpose in life, self-assessment of mental health, optimism, self-assessment of health, depression (negative conjugation), acceptance of a significant life situation, and prosocial tendencies are ranked. At the same time, intrapersonal (endopsychic) factors, such as resilience and the presence of a goal in life, have the greatest impact. Exopsychic factors, such as attitude to a significant life situation and prosocial orientation, as well as mental health (depression) and self-esteem, have a lesser impact.The greatest contribution to subjective well-being of intrapersonal characteristics found in the empirical study confirms the leading role of the individual in regulating the relationship between man and the world. The data obtained make it possible to build a hierarchy of significant health resources, which will allow more meaningful filling of health promotion programmes for representatives of various fields of activity, including higher education students.
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