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Number 1/2007
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Dynamics of psychological well-being. Exploration of data
from the Polish survey Social Diagnosis
Mariusz Trejtowicz
Jagiellonian University
Abstract |
This article presents a way of thinking about the lifelong stability of
psychological well-being in dynamical terms. The reciprocal causality of
well-being and its correlates is estimated by a structural equation model for
panel data from Social Diagnosis, a survey conducted in Poland in 2000, 2003,
and 2005, with more than 18 thousand respondents examined during this time
and 5724 respondents examined in all three waves of the program. Psychological
well-being is understood as a kind of performance indicator for a dynamic
adaptation system. Self-regulation quality is derived from characteristics of
the system of causal interrelations in which well-being is involved. It is
posited that self-regulation of well-being could be mediated by patterns of
resource expenditure in the processes of coping. Implications for possibilities
of lasting change in psychological well-being are discussed.
Keywords: well-being, reciprocal causality, structural modeling
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