TY - JOUR
T1 - General Mental Health and Subjective Well-Being Among University Students
T2 - The Moderating Role of Personal Cultural Orientations
AU - Kokkinos, Constantinos M.
AU - Tsouloupas, Costas N.
AU - Voulgaridou, Ioanna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023/12
Y1 - 2023/12
N2 - The aim of the present study was to examine the associations among general mental health, personal culture orientations, and subjective well-being in a sample of Greek 662 university students (66.3% females, M age = 21.35). It additionally explored the moderating role of personal cultural orientations in the link between general mental health and subjective well-being. The findings indicated that general mental health was positively correlated with subjective well-being, independence, interdependence, tradition, and prudence, and negatively with power, risk aversion, and ambiguity intolerance. Similarly, subjective well-being showed positive associations with independence, interdependence, tradition, and prudence, while it was negatively linked to risk aversion and ambiguity intolerance. Moderation analyses revealed that independence, interdependence, and prudence enhanced the positive association between general mental health and subjective well-being among university students. The current findings add to the shortage of information available on the interaction between personal cultural orientations and general mental health in explaining subjective well-being in university students. Practical implications are also discussed.
AB - The aim of the present study was to examine the associations among general mental health, personal culture orientations, and subjective well-being in a sample of Greek 662 university students (66.3% females, M age = 21.35). It additionally explored the moderating role of personal cultural orientations in the link between general mental health and subjective well-being. The findings indicated that general mental health was positively correlated with subjective well-being, independence, interdependence, tradition, and prudence, and negatively with power, risk aversion, and ambiguity intolerance. Similarly, subjective well-being showed positive associations with independence, interdependence, tradition, and prudence, while it was negatively linked to risk aversion and ambiguity intolerance. Moderation analyses revealed that independence, interdependence, and prudence enhanced the positive association between general mental health and subjective well-being among university students. The current findings add to the shortage of information available on the interaction between personal cultural orientations and general mental health in explaining subjective well-being in university students. Practical implications are also discussed.
KW - General mental health
KW - Personal cultural orientations
KW - Satisfaction with life
KW - University students
KW - Well-being
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85116280540&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s42087-021-00253-8
DO - 10.1007/s42087-021-00253-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85116280540
SN - 2522-5804
VL - 6
SP - 776
EP - 793
JO - Human Arenas
JF - Human Arenas
IS - 4
ER -