The Role of Flourishing in Relationship between Positive and Negative Life Events and Affective Well-Being
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The Role of Flourishing in Relationship between Positive and Negative Life Events and Affective Well-Being Zvjezdana Prizmić-Larsen 1 & Ljiljana Kaliterna-Lipovčan 2 & Randy Larsen 1 & Tihana Brkljačić 2 & Andreja Brajša-Žganec 2 Received: 23 May 2018 / Accepted: 7 June 2019/ # The International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS) and Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Abstract In past research differing effects of life events on well-being are observed. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between frequency and importance of positive and negative life events and affective well-being, and to explore the role of flourishing in moderating this relationship in the general population. The study comprised data from convenience sample of adult Internet users (N = 5031) who in on-line survey rated the positive and negative affect over the last month, level of flourishing, reported the occurrence of 28 positive and 28 negative life events and rated the importance of each event happened in previous year. While controlling for sociodemographic variables, results showed that frequencies of both positive and negative events were associated with positive affect. However, only frequency and importance of negative events were associated with negative affect. Flourishing moderated the effect of importance of both positive and negative events on negative affect. People higher in flourishing showed trend of decreased negative affect with increased importance of negative life events, as well as with increased importance of positive life events. Findings are discussed within Fredrickson’s broaden and build theory, people who flourish might be more resourceful in coping with perceived higher impact of negative life events while important positive events could help in building personal resources. Keywords Affective well-being . Flourishing . Positive life events . Negative life events
Introduction ]Everyday life is characterized by events which are positive or negative, important or unimportant, or desirable or undesirable, according to the individual who is experiencing
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them. Research shows that the experience of life events might have short- or long-term effects on subjective well-being (Luhmann et al. 2012; Hentschel et al. 2017). Also, there are individual differences in how persons respond to life events which in turn may moderate the relationship between life events and subjective well-being (Seery et al. 2010; Burns and Machin 2013). In this paper we focus on the affective components of subjective well-being, and their associations with life events, as well as on exploring if flourishing as personal resource may moderate such a relationship. In the literature affective components or hedonic approach to well-being focuses on feeling good, positive, or happy versus feeling unhappy, negative, or sad in one’s life (Diener 1984). Affective well-being refers to frequent exp
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