1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Effects of Subjective Well-being on mental health in School setting.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	06610096
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	教育・社会系心理学
Research Institution	Kochi University
Principal Investigator	SAITO Yoko (丹羽洋子) Kochi University, faculty of Education, Assistant professor, 教育学部, 助教授 (60235083)
Project Period (FY)	1994 – 1995
Keywords	montal health / Subjective Well-being / Stress management / happiness / life satisfaction / coping style / positive affect / soual anxiety
Research Abstract	The purpose of this research is to development and validation of a scale to measure mantal health, Subjective Well-being Scale (SWBS), including three component, happiness, life satisfaction, and positive affect. The SWBS is shown to have favorable psychometric properties. Scores on the subscale of SWBS correlate highly with Emotional expressive style, stress coping style, and correlate predictably with internalizing problems. These results suggest that Subjective Well-being may have predictive specificity for the development of psychopathplogy. The significance of the Subjective Well-being Scale for psychological research on school adaptation adn educationally applied research was discussed.