Abstract
Resilience is a key factor in the well-being of individuals. The present study set out to analyze the role of fluid intelligence, personality traits, and resilience in hedonic and eudaimonic well-being (EWB) in order to determine the incremental validity of resilience with respect to fluid intelligence and personality traits in 168 Italian high school students. The Advanced Progressive Matrices, the Big Five Questionnaire, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, the Meaningful Life Measure, the Authenticity Scale were administered to the participants in the study. The results showed that resilience added a significant percentage of incremental variance with respect to fluid intelligence and personality traits in relation to life satisfaction, positive affect, life meaning, and authenticity. These results underline the value of resilience in both hedonic and EWB, thus offering new perspectives for research and intervention.
Highlights
American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines (Hage et al, 2007) indicate the importance of a preventive perspective in psychological health and well-being
Considering resilience as a preventive resource (Hage et al, 2007; Kenny and Hage, 2009; Di Fabio et al, in press), the aim of the present study was to analyze the role of resilience, after controlling for the effects of fluid intelligence and personality traits, in both hedonic and eudaimonic well-being (EWB)
The first hypothesis was confirmed as resilience added significant incremental variance beyond that accounted for by personality traits in relation to hedonic well-being in terms of life satisfaction and positive affect (PA)
Summary
American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines (Hage et al, 2007) indicate the importance of a preventive perspective in psychological health and well-being. The hedonic approach focuses on happiness, defining well-being in terms of pleasure attainment and pain avoidance (Kahneman et al, 1999) It can be seen as subjective well-being (SWB, Kahneman et al, 1999) consisting of a cognitive component of evaluation in terms of life satisfaction and an affective component characterized by the prevalence of positive emotions rather than negative emotions. The eudaimonic approach, on the other hand, relates to meaning, and self-realization where well-being is seen as the full functioning of the person (Ryan and Deci, 2001) It can be considered psychological well-being (PWB, Ryff and Singer, 2008), known as EWB, (Waterman et al, 2010), with the focus on
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