Abstract
Empirical research on well-being has rapidly increased in recent years. One of the most dominant issue concerns the degree of cross-situational consistency and stability of well-being across time, and this is of particular relevance to women life. The aim of this study was to verify the stability of women well-being in short windows of time, specifically across menstrual cycle phases. A within-subject design with 25 normally cycling women (range: 19–26 years) was carried out. The multidimensional assessment of well-being included the administration of psychological well-being, self-esteem, and emotional self-efficacy beliefs questionnaires during both high and low-fertility phases. The results showed the stability of the level of individual well-being across menstrual cycle phases. Albeit preliminary, results indicated that women representations of their well-being do not change according to menstrual cycle. Rather, an effective organization and integration of the entire self-system appears sustained by the stability of well-being measured through a multi-componential assessment over short periods of time.
Highlights
The Consistency of Individual Well-BeingEmpirical research in well-being intended as optimal psychological functioning (Ryan and Deci, 2001) has rapidly increased in recent years (e.g., Diener et al, 1999; Keyes et al, 2002; Seligman, 2011)
To verify that the level of well-being was stable across menstrual cycle phases, Bayes factor (BF) was calculated to provide evidence for stable individual well-being during menstrual cycle phases in comparison to the alternative model of differences in the repeated measures of well-being
The analysis showed that the data are ‘BF value’ times more likely to occur under the hypothesis that the repeated measures were equal rather than different
Summary
The Consistency of Individual Well-BeingEmpirical research in well-being intended as optimal psychological functioning (Ryan and Deci, 2001) has rapidly increased in recent years (e.g., Diener et al, 1999; Keyes et al, 2002; Seligman, 2011). Even though research on well-being has traditionally focused on hedonic versus eudaimonic approach (Waterman, 1993), recent studies claimed that well-being could be best described as a multidimensional construct that includes the elements of both hedonic and eudaimonic. In line with Karademas (2007), well-being has multiple components and positive well-being could be conceived as the cognitive and affective reactions to the perception of adequate personal characteristics and achievements, efficient interaction with the world and social integration, and positive progress in time. Within this field of research, one of the most dominant issues concerns the degree of cross-situational consistency and stability across time that well-being possesses. Studies focusing on the associations between malleable circumstances and wellbeing have mostly investigated changes in subjective well-being and have not used a multi-componential approach
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