Empirical verification of theoretical model between subjective well-being, self-esteem and depression in non-clinical young people
International Journal of Development Research
Empirical verification of theoretical model between subjective well-being, self-esteem and depression in non-clinical young people
Received 28th January, 2019; Received in revised form 06th February, 2019; Accepted 09nd March, 2019; Published online 29th April, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Nilton Soares Formiga et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This study aimed to verify a theoretical model in which the subjective well-being construct explains self-esteem and depression in non-clinical Brazilian youth. A sample of 1864 subjects (men and women) aged 12 to 20 years of elementary or higher education from public institutions, in addition to socio-demographic data, responded to the subjective well-being inventory, the self-esteem scale and the depression inventory. From a recursive model of structural equations, it was observed that positive well-being was positively associated with positive self-esteem and, negatively, with depression. On the other hand, negative well-being was positively related to negative self-esteem and depression. In general, the importance of well-being in relation to the development of a structure and to the functionality regarding the psychosocial adjustment of the people, which favors a better self-evaluation of satisfaction and quality of life, is emphasized.
