The relationship between happiness tendency and happiness: the multiple mediating effects of prosocial behavior and basic psychological needs

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Title：
The relationship between happiness tendency and happiness: the multiple mediating effects of prosocial behavior and basic psychological needs
Author：
Guoqing Lv, Yan Zhou
Author Affiliation：
School of Education Science, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, China

Abstract

In order to explore the effect of meaning happiness tendency on happiness and its psychological mechanism, 665 students were tested with happiness tendency scale, basic psychological needs satisfaction Scale, prosocial behavior scale, positive-negative emotion scale and life satisfaction scale. The results show that: (1) Meaning happiness tends to affect happiness through prosocial behavior and basic psychological needs; (2) Prosocial behavior and basic psychological needs play a parallel mediating role in the relationship between meaning happiness tendency and happiness. Therefore, meaning happiness tendency can not only directly predict happiness, but also indirectly predict happiness through the parallel mediating effects of basic psychological needs satisfaction and prosocial behavior.

Keywords

Meaning happiness tendency, prosocial behavior, basic psychological needs, happiness.

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