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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Health Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1463459

Factors influencing students' happiness, vitality, and self-esteem

Provisionally accepted
Daiva Majauskiene Daiva Majauskiene 1*Natalja Istomina Natalja Istomina 1Dovile Valanciene Dovile Valanciene 1Ruta Dadeliene Ruta Dadeliene 1Aurelija Sidlauskiene Aurelija Sidlauskiene 1Tomas Aukstikalnis Tomas Aukstikalnis 1Ieva E. Jamontaite Ieva E. Jamontaite 1Emilija Strazdaite Emilija Strazdaite 1Ramune Zilinskiene Ramune Zilinskiene 1Milda Gintiliene Milda Gintiliene 2Asta Sarkauskiene Asta Sarkauskiene 3Albertas Skurvydas Albertas Skurvydas 1
  • 1 Vilnius University, Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 2 Kauno kolegija Higher Education Institution, Kaunas, Lithuania
  • 3 Klaipėda University, Klaipėda, Lithuania

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    The happiness and well-being of individuals are among the most important components of life. However, there remains a lack of evidence regarding the relationships between students' happiness, vigor, and self-esteem on the one hand and various complex factors on the other hand. We conducted a cross-sectional study involving 397 students from various Lithuanian universities. We determined students' happiness, self-esteem, vigor, healthy lifestyles, perceived stress, personality traits, academic achievements and motivation by using validated scales. The study indicates that while happiness and self-esteem are not linked to healthy lifestyles, vigor is positively associated with moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and healthy eating, and negatively with body mass index (BMI). Happiness and vigor inversely relate to stress, and happiness and self-esteem inversely relate to depression. Vigor is positively related to extraversion, and self-esteem to neuroticism. Happiness, vigor, and self-esteem are not linked to academic achievements, but happiness relates to non-utilitarian decisions, and selfesteem to emotional intelligence and non-utilitarian decisions. Happiness, vigor, self-esteem were not linked to intrinsic motivation to study, but self-esteem was inversely related to amotivation and childhood violence. This study fills the research gap and deepens the understanding of what determines students' happiness and vigor, and self-esteem.

    Keywords: happiness, life vitality, health and healthy lifestyles, Emotional Intelligence, Logical thinking, Moral decision, childhood negative experience, personality traits

    Received: 11 Jul 2024; Accepted: 18 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Majauskiene, Istomina, Valanciene, Dadeliene, Sidlauskiene, Aukstikalnis, Jamontaite, Strazdaite, Zilinskiene, Gintiliene, Sarkauskiene and Skurvydas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Daiva Majauskiene, Vilnius University, Vilnius, LT-01513, Vilnius, Lithuania

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