THE INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NARCISSISM, PERFECTIONISM, LONELINESS, DEPRESSION, SUBJECTIVE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN A SAMPLE OF TRANSYLVANIAN HUNGARIAN AND ROMANIAN STUDENTS
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https://doi.org/10.24193/subbpsyped.2020.2.02Keywords:
narcissism, perfectionism, loneliness, depression, subjective well-being, psychological well-beingAbstract
The last decades have witnessed a significant increase in several forms of human psychological malfunctioning, aspects that proved to significantly endanger healthy and efficient human adaptation. Mental health indicators (anxiety, depression, reduced levels of happiness), perfectionism, narcissism, and loneliness have significantly increased, despite the significant improvement of existent life-conditions. The market-based competition and reward system in the educational and professional spheres, as well as the perfectionistic expectations specific to the personal life impose high demands on the individual, which usually become sources of significant chronic stress, further impacting the individual’s quality of life (psychological and subjective well-being, loneliness). The comparative investigation of the above-mentioned variables in Transylvanian Hungarian and Transylvanian Romanian students would offer us the chance to compare these levels of functioning in two, culturally different samples. Our present study is a continuation and refinement of previous studies, and concentrates on the following major aims: (i) the investigation of the possible differences in narcissism, perfectionism, loneliness, depression, happiness, subjective and psychological well-being in Transylvanian Hungarian and Transylvanian Romanian first and second year students; (ii) the investigation of the association patterns between variables in both samples, and (iii) the examination of the role the studied variables play on the major indicators of mental and psychological health (depression and happiness) both in the united sample and on the two samples of students separately. The results of our investigation may be beneficial for the tailoring of future prevention and intervention programs that would target the enhancement of psychological adaptation of Transylvanian students.
In den letzten Jahrzehnten gab es eine signifikante Zunahme verschiedener Formen menschlicher psychischer Fehlfunktionen, Aspekte, die eine gesunde und effiziente Anpassung des Menschen erheblich gefährdeten. Die Indikatoren für die psychische Gesundheit (Angstzustände, Depressionen, vermindertes Glück), Perfektionismus, Narzissmus und Einsamkeit haben trotz der signifikanten Verbesserung der bestehenden Lebensbedingungen erheblich zugenommen. Das marktorientierte Wettbewerbs- und Belohnungssystem im Bildungs- und Berufsbereich sowie die perfektionistischen Erwartungen an das persönliche Leben stellen hohe Anforderungen an den Einzelnen, die in der Regel zu Quellen erheblichen chronischen Stresses werden und die Lebensqualität des Einzelnen weiter beeinträchtigen (psychisches und subjektives Wohlbefinden, Einsamkeit). Die vergleichende Untersuchung der oben genannten Variablen bei siebenbürgischen ungarischen und siebenbürgischen rumänischen Studenten würde uns die Möglichkeit bieten, diese Funktionsniveaus in zwei kulturell unterschiedlichen Stichproben zu vergleichen. Unsere vorliegende Studie ist eine Fortsetzung und Verfeinerung früherer Studien und konzentriert sich auf die folgenden Hauptziele: (i) die Untersuchung der möglichen Unterschiede in Bezug auf Narzissmus, Perfektionismus, Einsamkeit, Depression, Glück, subjektives und psychologisches Wohlbefinden in Siebenbürgen, Ungarisch und Siebenbürgische rumänische Erst- und Zweitklässler; (ii) die Untersuchung der Assoziationsmuster zwischen Variablen in beiden Stichproben und (iii) die Untersuchung der Rolle, die die untersuchten Variablen für die Hauptindikatoren der psychischen und psychischen Gesundheit (Depression und Glück) sowohl in der Stichprobe als auch in der Stichprobe spielen zwei Stichproben von Studenten getrennt. Die Ergebnisse unserer Untersuchung könnten für die Anpassung künftiger Präventions- und Interventionsprogramme von Vorteil sein, die auf die Verbesserung der psychologischen Anpassung siebenbürgischer Studenten abzielen.
Schlüsselworte: Narzissmus, Perfektionismus, Einsamkeit, Depression, subjektives Wohlbefinden, psychisches Wohlbefinden.
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