Reliability and Validity Studies of Externality of Happiness Scale Among Turkish Adults

Yıldırım, Murat; Barmanpek, Ufuk; Farag, Ahmad A. H.

doi:10.19044/esj.2018.v14n14p1

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“…Resilience might be a variable with the potential to explain the relationship between fear of happiness and well-being indices. Considering the negative effect of fear of happiness on individuals’ levels of well-being ( Joshanloo, 2017 ; Yildirim et al, 2018 ), resilience might play an important role in protecting well-being against the negative effect of fear of happiness. To put it differently, resilience may function to preserve and promote positive psychological outcomes against negative impact of fear of happiness.…”

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“…That is, individuals with higher levels of fear of happiness report lower levels of subjective and psychological well-being. Studies also demonstrated that higher scores on fear of happiness were related with higher scores on externality of happiness and lower scores on self-esteem ( Yildirim, Barmanpek, & Farag, 2018 ). Furthermore, fear of happiness was found to be uniquely important to both subjective and psychological well-being after controlling for personality.…”

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Mediating role of resilience in the relationships between fear of happiness and affect balance, satisfaction with life, and flourishing

Yıldırım

2019

Eur. J. Psychol.

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The present study was a first attempt to examine the mediating role of resilience in the relationships between fear of happiness and affect balance, satisfaction with life, and flourishing. Participants consisted of 256 Turkish adults (174 males and 82 females) and aged between 18 and 62 years (M = 36.97, SD = 9.02). Participants completed measures assessing fear of happiness, affect balance, satisfaction with life, and flourishing. The results showed that fear of happiness was negatively correlated with resilience, affect balance, satisfaction with life, and flourishing, while resilience was positively correlated with affect balance, satisfaction with life, and flourishing. The results of mediation analysis showed that (a) resilience fully mediated the effect of fear of happiness upon flourishing, and satisfaction with life, (b) partially mediated the effect of fear of happiness upon affect balance. These findings suggest that resilience helps to explain the associations between fear of happiness and affect balance, satisfaction with life, and flourishing. This study elucidates the potential mechanism behind the association between fear of happiness and indicators of well-being. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. With the advent of positive psychology, researchers have focused not only on treating negative states (e.g. depression, anxiety) but also promoting positive states (e.g. happiness, life satisfaction), individual strengths and their relations to mental health, well-being and social prosperity (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000). Positive psychology emphasises the importance of identifying and understanding factors associated with subjective well-being, psychological well-being, and flourishing. Recent research identified new sets of variables that affect both subjective and psychological well-being. For example, fear of happiness is one of the variables that was found to be negatively associated with positive psychological variables. Fear of happiness refers to the notion that being happy results in bad things to happen and should be bewared of (Joshanloo, 2013). According to Joshanloo (2013), individuals who have high levels of fear of happiness may suppress their authentic positive emotions toward pursuing happiness to shun negative effects of positive states of mind (e.g. happiness, joy). Fear of happiness can be considered as a dysfunctional belief that may generate a tendency toward dampening of positive emotions. There is a variety of factors Europe's Journal of Psychology ejop.psychopen.eu | 1841-0413 affecting people's attitude toward experience of positive emotions. Joshanloo (2013) grounded the theoretical position of fear of happiness on a wide range of contexts including culture, religion, and superstitious beliefs.Giving specif...

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Mediating role of resilience in the relationships between fear of happiness and affect balance, satisfaction with life, and flourishing

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2019

Eur. J. Psychol.

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“…Some of these factors are personality, social support, health, and individualism vs collectivism (Diener & Diener, 1995;Diener & Lucas, 1999;Diener, Oishi & Lucas, 2003). Studies also suggest that higher satisfaction with life is related with higher resilience, self-esteem (Lee, Kim & Wachholtz, 2016;Martínez-Martí & Ruch, 2017), presence of partnership, and income while lower satisfaction with life is related with higher stress (Lee, Kim & Wachholtz, 2016), anxiety, depression, unemployment (Beutel et al, 2010), fear of happiness (Yildirim & Aziz, 2017), and externality of happiness (Yildirim, Barmanpek, & Farag, 2018a). Satisfaction with life is associated with gratitude and social support (Kong, Ding & Zhao, 2015;Wood, Joseph & Maltby, 2008a), optimism (Extremera, Durán & Rey, 2009), social relationships (Darling et al, 2007), and health seeking and health-promoting behaviours (Grant, Wardle & Steptoe, 2009).…”

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Gratitude and Life Satisfaction: Mediating Role of Perceived Stress

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Alanazi²

2018

IJPS

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The relationships between gratitude, satisfaction with life, and stress have been widely examined in different cultures. However, empirical research on these variables is scant in Saudi Arabia. The aim of this study was to investigate the mediation effect of stress in the relationship between gratitude and life satisfaction in an understudied population of Arabic student sample. Participants were 141 Arabic-speaking undergraduate students (18 males and 123 females; mean age = 23.8 years, SD = 4.23) and completed self-report measures of gratitude, satisfaction with life, and stress. As expected, regression analysis showed that gratitude positively predicted satisfaction with life, while stress negatively predicted satisfaction with life. Mediation analysis showed that stress fully mediate the relationship between gratitude and life satisfaction. Higher levels of gratitude positively predicted higher levels of satisfaction with life though the decreased stress. The emerging results have important implications to research and practice regarding understanding the mechanism underlying gratitude, satisfaction with life, and stress in the context of a non-western country.

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“…Thus, individuals with fear of happiness avoid happiness-provoking activities and restrain their otherwise authentic positive emotions such as joy, enthusiasm and particularly happiness in order to secure their well-being. Despite such effort, studies documented that steering away from happiness and authentic positive feelings might result in negative consequences for the well-being of individuals (Belen et al, 2019;Joshanloo, 2018;Yildirim, Barmanpek & Farag, 2018). To this end, literature documents support for the negative association between fear of happiness and various types of well-being, particularly subjective well-being (Yildirim, 2019).…”

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“…For instance, Western cultures consider happiness www.turkishstudies.net/education as one of the basic human rights, whereas most Eastern cultures are prone to disfavour excessive happiness as it is perceived to result in suffering or invite 'evil eyes', envy or rivalry in certain specific situations .To avoid potentially unpleasant consequences, individuals restrain otherwise authentic emotions, decrease their perception of any positive impact or avoid any behaviour related to achievement, excessive enthusiasm or joy Joshanloo, 2014;Joshanloo &Weijers, 2014). Contextually, this belief has emerged as fear of happiness and numerous studies documented that steering away from experiencing happiness and authentic positive feelings might result in negative consequences for the well-being of individuals (Belen et al, 2019;Joshanloo, 2018;Yildirim, Barmanpek& Farag, 2018). As a result, the idea of fear of happiness in this context is conceptually similar to more negative psychological constructs because it implies a somewhat pessimistic attitude towards life.…”

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Mutluluk Korkusu ve Öznel İyi Oluş: Minnettarlığın Aracılık Rolü

Barmanpek¹

2020

TurkishStudies

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Fear of happiness is a dysfunctional belief system that is linked to poorer functioning, and negatively impacts crucial aspects of mental health, specifically subjective well-being. Previous studies have documented that fear of happiness, either directly or through mediators, has an impact on various forms of subjective well-being. Despite the conceptual convergence, no studies to date have investigated the mediating role of gratitude in the relationship between fear of happiness and life satisfaction. The current study aims to explore such a relationship. A total of 344 university students participated in the study from Educational Science Department at Bursa Uludag University. The sample included 264 females (M=21.08, SD= 1.62) and 80 male students (M=21.68, SD= 1.87). Participants completed the Fear of Happiness Scale, Gratitude Scale and Satisfaction with Life Scale. In terms of results, correlational analyses demonstrated that fear of happiness was inversely correlated with the dimensions of gratitude and life satisfaction. No correlation was found between fear of happiness and the component of appreciation for others. Structural equation modelling (SEM) analyses indicated that gratitude components of sense of abundance and simple appreciation fully mediated the relationship between fear of happiness and life satisfaction. The results demonstrated that fear of happiness contributes to some of the components of gratitude, such as sense of abundance and simple appreciation, which in turn contributes to life satisfaction. Implications are discussed further. * Çalışmada kullanılan veriler 2019 yılında temin edilmiştir.

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Reliability and Validity Studies of Externality of Happiness Scale Among Turkish Adults

Cited by 11 publications

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Mediating role of resilience in the relationships between fear of happiness and affect balance, satisfaction with life, and flourishing

Mediating role of resilience in the relationships between fear of happiness and affect balance, satisfaction with life, and flourishing

Gratitude and Life Satisfaction: Mediating Role of Perceived Stress

Mutluluk Korkusu ve Öznel İyi Oluş: Minnettarlığın Aracılık Rolü

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