Prediction of social well-being based on prosocial personality and psychological reactance in students
Subject Areas : social psychology
1 - ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY
Keywords: ", psychological reactance", , ", social well-being", , ", prosocial personality", ,
Abstract :
The aim of this research was the prediction of social well-being based on prosocial personality and psychological reactance in students. The research was deascriptive and kind of correlational. Statistical population of research was composed of all students of Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University. 200 students were selected by convenient sampling method from this population. Research tool included Social Well-being Scale (Keyes, 1998), Prosocial Personality Scale (Penner, 2002) and Psychological Reactance Scale (Hong and Faedda, 1996). For analyzing data was used of Pearson`s correlation coefficient and multivariate regression. The results indicated that there is a significant positive correlation between social well-being and it`s components (social integrity, social coherence, social contribution, social actualization, and social acceptance) with prosocial personality (p<0.05) and significant negative correlation between social well-being and it`s components (social integrity, social coherence, social contribution, social actualization, and social acceptance) with psychological reactance (p<0.05). Also, prosocial personality had significant negative correlation with psychological reactance (p<0.05). In addition, results of multivariate regression analysis showed that prosocial personality and it`s components can predict 44% of social well-being variance and psychological reactance and it`s components can predict 24% of social well-being variance. According to the research results, exhibiting educational workshops is recommended for inhancing social well-being and prosocial personality and decreasing psychological reactance in students.
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