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“The Sum Is Greater Than the Parts?”—The Role of Student Covitality in Flourishing.
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Journal of Happiness Studies . Jun2024, Vol. 25 Issue 5, p1-22. 22p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Existing studies have revealed associations of positive psychological traits with human thriving and flourishing. However, how these traits co-occur—known as covitality—and how it relates to flourishing remain relatively unexplored. This study aimed to investigate how student covitality as a second-order construct of four school experience-grounded positive psychological traits, namely gratitude, optimism, zest and persistence, predicts flourishing among primary school students. Participants were fourth to sixth graders (N = 1,107, 36.2% Grade 4, 32.8% Grade 5, and 31.0% Grade 6; 50.4% female) from 34 primary schools in Hong Kong (7.1% Hong Kong Island, 36.4% Kowloon, and 56.5% New Territories). In this study, structural equation modelling showed that student covitality as a second-order construct predicted flourishing directly (β =.594), and also indirectly through resilience (β =.111) and prosocial behaviour (β =.062). The findings suggest that student covitality as a latent construct better captures the mechanisms that drive student flourishing than the four individual first-order constructs of positive psychological traits. This study sheds light on future efforts in the field of children’s flourishing to consider school-related covitality as a critical variable in research and to develop school-based strategies that promote covitality in practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13894978
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Happiness Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177072453
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00759-2