Relationships, self-aspects and subjective well-being in an Asian context Singapore

• Main Authors: Chua, Jia Rong, Foo, Kenneth Jiliang, Venkatachalam Alamu
• Other Authors: Weining Chu Chang
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Affection and emotion
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15654
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The present study investigated the relationship between different perceptions of interdependence with one’s in-group, aspects of the self and subjective well-being in a sample of two hundred and forty-five undergraduates from Singapore. The participants completed questionnaires measuring attitudes toward group, self-aspects, Asian subjective well-being, and positive and negative affect. The hypotheses that perceived affective interdependence with one’s significant in group would be positively associated with Asian subjective well-being and positive affect were supported. The collective self-aspect was found to be a partial mediator of the relationship, but the relational self-aspect was not. Institutional interdependence was not related to both affective and cognitive components of subjective well-being.