EMPOWERED AND SATISFIED: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMPOWERMENT, TEMPORAL LIFE SATISFACTION AND TIME PERSPECTIVE

摘要

Previous research has shown that, among psychiatric patients, empowerment is connected with satisfaction with life. However, assuming the existence of a continuum between health and illness, a similar connection in nonclinical subjects can be expected. Additionally, recent research has shown that time perspective influences life satisfaction. This study aimed to investigate how empowerment and time perspective impact perceived satisfaction with life in the past, the present and the future. The results indicate that there are significant relationships between empowerment, time perspective, and temporal satisfaction with life. Regression analysis showed that a balanced time perspective (BTP) and Past Negative time perspective are especially important predictors for satisfaction with life in each time framework. RIP and empowerment, taken together, are important sources of present and future life satisfaction, Past Negative and empowerment are important predictors of present satisfaction with life. The results may be important for thinking about the structure of human psychological characteristics and understanding sources of adaptive functioning and well-being.