PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS OF THE Phenomenon OF SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING AND ITS EFFECT ON PERSONALITY LIFE SATISFACTION

Abstract

The article analyzes the phenomenon of subjective well-being and its effect on personality life satisfaction. It has been revealed that contemporary researchers more often refer to the problem of studying the subjective well-being in their works; however there is no single approach to the understanding of this phenomenon. Generally the term “personality well-being” is understood as multifactorial construct, which is considered as interrelation of physical, social, economic and psychological factors. It is emphasized that psychological well-being is a complex, integral phenomenon, which characterizes positive personality functioning and which is expressed in subjective sense of life satisfaction, realization of own potential and depends on subjective quality of personality communication with surrounding people. It has been determined that subjective well-being is complex psychological phenomenon that includes emotional, cognitive and connative components. Different concepts of understanding of subjective well-being in scientific literature have been reviewed. It is highlighted that subjective well-being consists of cognitive assessment of satisfaction with different spheres of own life and emotional assessment of self-perception, life satisfaction, absence of negative affect and presence of positive emotions; and represents personality dynamic cognitive and emotional assessment of own life quality generally and its individual spheres, on the one hand depending on oneself and own personality properties, on the other hand – on own life realities. It is analyzed that the basis of subjective well-being concept became the theory of N.M. Bradburn, who compared psychological well-being with subjective sense of happiness and general satisfaction with life, and created the model of psychological well-being on this basis, which includes: balance between constant interaction of positive and negative affects and daily life events. It is determined that three-component model of subjective well-being is the most popular, where distinguish the cognitive constituent (assessment of one's own life, which is expressed in satisfaction, ideas about one's future), the emotional constituent (positive or negative emotions, optimism, satisfaction with present and past, positive attitude towards others, health self-esteem, independence, authenticity) and the conative constituent (behavioral, which includes control over circumstances and presence of one's own goals of existence).