Eudaimonic Growth: Narrative Growth Goals Predict Increases in Ego Development and Subjective Well-Being 3 Years Later
Eudaimonic Growth: Narrative Growth Goals Predict Increases in Ego Development and Subjective Well-Being 3 Years Later
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DOI：
10.1037/a0019654
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发表时间：
2010-07-01
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4
通讯作者：
McAdams, Dan P.
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作者：
Bauer, Jack J.;McAdams, Dan P.
我们研究了(a)初成年期幸福感的规范过程，以及(b)人们对主要生活目标的叙述是否能前瞻性地预测3年后的幸福感增长。我们将幸福成长定义为幸福幸福感的纵向增长，我们将其定义为心理社会成熟度和主观幸福感（SWB）的结合。大学新生和大四学生分别在时间1 （T1）和3年后（时间2）分别采用自我发展（ED; Loevinger, 1976）和主观幸福感量表进行成熟度评估。在这段时间内，男性和大一新生的ED水平呈纵向上升趋势，但SWB水平没有变化。参与者还写了两个主要的人生目标的叙述，这些目标被编码为明确强调特定类型的个人成长。参与者的智力成长目标（尤其是能动性目标）预测了3年后ED的增加，而参与者的社会情感成长目标（尤其是社区目标）预测了3年后SWB的增加。这些发现独立于五大人格特征的影响，尤其是尽责性，而尽责性本身就能预测幸福感的增加。我们将讨论(a)作为现代社会规范的幸福成长的最后一站的成年期，以及(b)围绕叙事身份、人生规划、性格特征、幸福和个人成长两种路径之间关系的实证和理论问题。
We examine (a) the normative course of eudaimonic well-being in emerging adulthood and (b) whether people's narratives of major life goals might prospectively predict eudaimonic growth 3 years later. We define eudaimonic growth as longitudinal increases in eudaimonic well-being, which we define as the combination of psychosocial maturity and subjective well-being (SWB). College freshmen and seniors took measures of ego development (ED; to assess maturity; Loevinger, 1976) and SWB at Time 1 (T1) and again 3 years later (Time 2). ED levels increased longitudinally across that time for men and T1 freshmen, but SWB levels did not change. Participants also wrote narratives of 2 major life goals at T1 that were coded for an explicit emphasis on specific kinds of personal growth. Participants' intellectual-growth goals (especially agentic ones) predicted increases in ED 3 years later, whereas participants' socioemotional-growth goals (especially communal ones) predicted increases in SWB 3 years later. These findings were independent of the effects of Big Five personality traits notably conscientiousness, which on its own predicted increases in SWB. We discuss (a) emerging adulthood as the last stop for normative eudaimonic growth in modern society and (b) empirical and theoretical issues surrounding the relations among narrative identity, life planning, dispositional traits, eudaimonia, and 2 paths of personal growth.