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Title: | Is it helpful to believe that efforts will lead to positive outcomes? Two cross-lagged panel investigations among adolescents and young adults | Authors: | Ng, JCK Cheung, VWT Wong, HSM Leung, SMY Lau, VCY |
Issue Date: | Oct-2020 | Source: | International journal of environmental research and public health, Oct. 2020, , v. 17, no. 20, 7585, p. 1-14 | Abstract: | Over the past few decades, the role of self-views in life satisfaction has been extensively investigated. Recently, growing attention has been directed to the question of whether an optimistic worldview, termed reward for application, helps boost life satisfaction. Conceptually, the association between reward for application and life satisfaction can be paradoxical. Due to various methodological and theoretical shortfalls, previous investigations were unable to draw a robust conclusion on this association. To address these shortfalls, two cross-lagged panel studies were conducted with different time lags. Over and above the potential confounds of self-views (namely, self-esteem and self-rated personality traits), reward for application had a positive effect on lagged life satisfaction among both adolescents and young adults, while the reverse effect was not found. Moreover, we found support for the multiplicative effect between worldviews and self-views, in which the positive effect of reward for application on life satisfaction was attenuated by high self-esteem. | Keywords: | Reward for application Life satisfaction Worldviews Self-views Self-esteem Young adults Adolescents |
Publisher: | Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) | Journal: | International journal of environmental research and public health | ISSN: | 1661-7827 | EISSN: | 1660-4601 | DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph17207585 | Rights: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The following publication Ng, J.C.K.; Cheung, V.W.T.; Wong, H.S.M.; Leung, S.M.Y.; Lau, V.C.Y. Is It Helpful to Believe That Efforts Will Lead to Positive Outcomes? Two Cross-Lagged Panel Investigations among Adolescents and Young Adults. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17, 7585 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17207585 |
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