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What predicts well-being: connectedness to oneself, nature, others, or the transcendent?

Verbundenheit mit sich selbst, anderen, der Natur und dem Transzendenten als Einflussfaktoren für das Wohlbefinden

  • Well-being is essential for all people. Therefore, important factors influencing people’s well-being must be investigated. Well-being is multifaceted and defined as, for example, psychological, emotional, mental, physical, or social well-being. Here, we focus on psychological well-being. The study aimed to analyze different aspects of connectedness as potential predictors of psychological well-being. For this purpose, we conducted a study examining the psychological well-being of 184 participants (130 women, 54 men, age: M = 31.39, SD = 15.24) as well as their connectedness with oneself (self-love), with others (prosocialness), with nature (nature connectedness), and with the transcendent (spirituality). First, significant positive correlations appeared between psychological well-being and self-love, nature connectedness, and spirituality. Furthermore, correlations between the four aspects of connectedness were significant, except for the relationship between self-love and prosocialness. A regression analysis revealed that self-love and nature connectedness positively predicted participants’ psychological well-being, while spirituality and prosocialness did not explain any incremental variance. The strong relationship between self-love and well-being was partly mediated by nature connectedness. Hence, self love, understood as a positive attitude of self-kindness, should be considered in more detail to enhance psychological well-being. Besides this, a more vital connectedness to the surrounding nature could benefit people’s well-being.

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Author:Martina Rahe, Petra Jansen
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:kob7-24873
Parent Title (English):Cogent Psychology
Editor:Daryl O´Connor
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of completion:2024/07/24
Date of publication:2024/07/24
Publishing institution:Universität Koblenz, Universitätsbibliothek
Release Date:2024/07/24
Tag:Connectedness
nature connectedness; prosocialness; self-love; well-being
GND Keyword:Belonging
First page:1
Last page:10
Institutes:Fachbereich 1 / Institut für Psychologie
Dewey Decimal Classification:1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie
BKL-Classification:01 Allgemeines
Licence (German):License LogoCC BY