Engaging in prosocial behavior explains how high self-control relates to more life satisfaction: Evidence from three Chinese samples
| العنوان: | Engaging in prosocial behavior explains how high self-control relates to more life satisfaction: Evidence from three Chinese samples |
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| المؤلفون: | Jian-Bin Li, Yan-Gang Nie, Kai Dou, Zi-Qin Liang, Jing-Jing Li, Yu-Jie Wang |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 10, p e0223169 (2019) PLoS ONE |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Social Cognition, Male, Economics, Emotions, Social Sciences, 050109 social psychology, Personal Satisfaction, Adolescents, Developmental psychology, Families, Sociology, Surveys and Questionnaires, Medicine and Health Sciences, Psychology, Public and Occupational Health, Young adult, Cognitive impairment, Children, media_common, Multidisciplinary, Schools, 05 social sciences, Survey research, Self-control, Prosocial behavior, Medicine, Female, Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health, Research Article, Employment, Adult, Mediation (statistics), China, Social Psychology, Adolescent, media_common.quotation_subject, Science, 050105 experimental psychology, Education, Self-Control, Young Adult, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Association (psychology), Social Behavior, Students, Behavior, Cognitive Psychology, Life satisfaction, Biology and Life Sciences, Altruistic Behavior, Prosocial Behavior, Age Groups, Labor Economics, People and Places, Cognitive Science, Population Groupings, Neuroscience |
| الوصف: | High levels of self-control are found to be associated with greater life satisfaction. To further understand this relationship, the current study examined two questions: (1) whether too much self-control reduces, rather than increases, life satisfaction, as argued by some scholars; and (2) whether engaging in prosocial behavior explains the "self-control-life satisfaction" link. To this end, we conducted survey research among adolescents (N = 1,009), university students (N = 2,620), and adult workers (N = 500). All participants answered the same self-control and life satisfaction measures, whereas prosocial behavior was assessed using different scales across samples. Results of two-line regressions failed to reveal significant inverted-U shaped association between self-control and life satisfaction across samples. Moreover, results of mediation analyses showed that across samples, high levels of self-control were related to greater life satisfaction and this association was partly mediated by prosocial behavior. In conclusion, there is no evidence showing that too much self-control impairs life satisfaction. Engaging in prosocial behavior partly explains how high self-control relates to greater well-being. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::841b39850cc9bd9cd2b8e8d167b0d9ecTest https://doaj.org/article/64846004d151487bbbcefecc04ba2c0cTest |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....841b39850cc9bd9cd2b8e8d167b0d9ec |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19326203 |
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