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KMID : 1025820180260040575
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Family and Family Therapy
2018 Volume.26 No. 4 p.575 ~ p.589
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Emotional Expressiveness, Savoring Beliefs, and Well-Being in Middle-Aged Adults
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Park Sun-Mi
Jeon Hye-Seong
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of emotional expressiveness on the relationship between savoring beliefs and a subjective sense of well-being among middle-aged adults.
Methods: A questionnaire survey was given to middle-aged adults aged between 40-65 years in Seoul, Gyeonggi, Daegu, and Gwangju during a two week period in March, 2018 (N=326). The measuring instruments used were the savoring belief scale, the emotional expressiveness scale, and the shortened subjective well-being scale. Correlations among the variables were examined and the structural equation model was verified by verifying the measurement model.
Results: Three major results were found: First, higher savoring belief enhances emotional expressiveness and improves subjective well-being. Second, the higher the emotional expressiveness, the higher the subjective well-being. Third, emotional expressiveness had a partial mediating effect between savoring belief and subjective well-being.
Conclusions: In order to increase the subjective well-being of middle-aged adults, the savoring belief of emotional expressiveness, which includes a cognitive psychological mechanism, should be highly antecedent.
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KEYWORD
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middle-aged adults, savoring belief, emotional expressiveness, subjective well-being
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