The Impacts of Attributional Styles and Dispositional Optimism on Subject Well-Being: A Structural Equation Modelling Analysis

The current study examined the impact of attributional styles on subjective well-being, with a primary focus on confirmation of the mediator role of dispositional optimism among a sample of 384 college students. Participants completed a questionnaire packet containing life orientation test-revised,...

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Published in:Social indicators research 2014-11, Vol.119 (2), p.757-769
Main Authors: Zhang, Jiaxi, Miao, Danmin, Sun, Yunfeng, Xiao, Runxuan, Ren, Lei, Xiao, Wei, Peng, Jiaxi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attribution theory
Behavior Patterns
Behavioral Sciences
Causality
Chinese culture
Cognitive psychology
College Students
Coping
Correlation analysis
Educational Background
Evidence
Factor analysis
Happiness
Helplessness
Human Geography
Life Satisfaction
Marital Status
Microeconomics
Modeling
Multidimensional analysis
Optimism
Perceptions
Personality Traits
Personality. Social role
Psychological Patterns
Psychological research
Public Health
Quality of Life Research
Researchers
Resistance (Psychology)
Social psychology
Social research
Social Sciences
Sociology
Sociology of the family. Age groups
Statistical models
Structural Equation Models
Students
Studies
Subjectivity
Universities
Well Being
Wellbeing
Western civilization
Youth problems
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Summary:The current study examined the impact of attributional styles on subjective well-being, with a primary focus on confirmation of the mediator role of dispositional optimism among a sample of 384 college students. Participants completed a questionnaire packet containing life orientation test-revised, Multidimensional-Multiattributional Causality Scale, and Subjective Well-Being Scale. The results revealed that both dispositional optimism and attributional styles were significantly correlated with subjective well-being. Confirmatory factor analysis identified the latent structure of attributional styles in Chinese college students and found out that both positive and negative effort need to exclude from the structure which was different from findings in Western. Structural equation modeling indicated that optimism partially mediated positive attributional styles to subject well-being (SWB) and negative attributional styles to SWB. The final model also revealed significant both paths from positive and negative attributional styles to subjective well-being through optimism. The findings extended prior researches and shed light on how attributional styles influence subjective well-being; this provides valuable evidence on how to promote subjective well-being in positive psychology.
ISSN:0303-8300
1573-0921
DOI:10.1007/s11205-013-0520-7