身体自我与主观幸福

Physical Self and Subjective Well-being

自我是人格的核心,身体自我是自我观念最早发展的部分。我们在身体自我与主观幸福关系问题上的一系列研究积累了5项结果。1)对于人的生活满意感而言,主观身体感受比客观身体形象更重要;2)在整体自尊的基础上,主观身体感受仍可对生活满意感的预测做出增值贡献;3)身体自尊通过整体自尊对生活满意感产生影响;4)在大学生群体中,身体自我对于生活满意感而言至少与学术自我同样重要;5)依体育成绩高低分组时,身体自我价值感是预测生活满意感的最重要的变量;依学业成绩高低分组时,学业自我评价是预测生活满意感的最重要的预测变量。我们今后的研究任务是从调节变量的角度继续探讨身体自我与主观幸福之间关系的年龄效应、性别效应、文化效应以及身体自我的可控效应问题。

Self is the core of personality. Physical self is the earliest developed part of our self-concept. Our series of studies on the relationship between physical self and subjective well-being have accumulated five findings. First, our perception of physical conditions is more important to life satisfaction than our objective body shape. Second, our perception of physical conditions makes added contribution to prediction of life satisfaction beyond general self-esteem. Third, physical self-esteem influences life satisfaction through general self-esteem. Forth, among university students, physical self shows the same importance to life satisfaction as academic self, if not more. Fifth, body self-worthiness is the most important predictor in the prediction of life satisfaction when students are grouped according to their good or bad performance in physical education courses while academic self-evaluation is the most important predictor in prediction of life satisfaction when students are grouped according to their good or bad performance in academic courses. Our future research will try to explore the moderation effects of age, gender and culture on the relationship between physical self and subjective well-being and controllability of physical self.