THE SATISFACTION OF LIFE AND THE SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING OF A PERSONALITY

Abstract

Various definitions are used in science to describe the state of an individual subjective world in the aspect of its perception: satisfaction of life, emotional comfort, wellbeing, experience (feeling) of happiness, etc. Thus, «happiness» is a phenomenon that mostly belongs to an individual existential aspect of a human being, to the perception and in general to the understanding of the world and human nature; pleasure, satisfaction and emotional comfort are concepts with general meaning and without strict limits, in many scientific researches they are interpreted as comfortable living conditions. The notions of ‘well-being’ and ‘sense (feeling) of satisfaction’ are very important for the whole subjective (inner) world of a personality. The subjective well-being appears as a category of a human subjectness, where are combined perception, appreciation, attitude and other processes that are determined by external and inner factors; first of all we are talking about the subjectivity of relations of a personality. The main psychological features of the subjective well-being of a personality are subjectivity (the subjective well-being exists inside the individual experience), the positivity of perception (the subjective well-being is not only the absence of negative factors, definite positive signs should be presented), global appreciation (the subjective well-being generally includes global appreciation of all aspects of life of a personality during some weeks or decades of years). The subjective well-being of a personality is a compound sociopsychological formation, that includes emotional, cognitive and conative components, it is formed during socio-psychological activity, in the system of actual attitude of a personality towards the surrounding objects and it is based upon socio-psychological aims, values and behavioral strategies. The subjective well-being of a personality is influenced by inner (value and meaningful human formations, socio-psychological aims, behavioral strategies) and external factors (the conditions of socialization).