ATTITUDE TOWARD GENERATION AND COUNTRY FUTURE LIKE LIFE SATISFACTION PREDICTOR
Keywords:
optimism, generation future, country future, life satisfactionAbstract
Optimistic attitude is very important for modern youth. Psychological personal well-being is the optimal life circumstances evaluation for certain person. The purpose of this article is the analysis of generation and country future vision for modern youth, future planning and life satisfaction research. The authors’ research technique called Personal Future Vision Scale was used in this study. Study methodology was based on unrealistic optimism theory and on M. Fishbein I.Ajzen theory of reasoned action.
It provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the concern. Main result is that people tend to put higher than average probability on positive event in their future rather than negative events. Events were associated with main areas of Young generations and country lives. Individuals were asked to evaluate them on a scale from 0 to 10 of being positive or negative with 0 – strictly negative and 10 – strictly positive. Additionally, participants were asked to put high or low probability tags on events. Cantril Ladder and Ed. Diener’s Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) was used to measure life satisfaction level in this study. The study had done in 2016. The 90 participants different age (from 14 to 35 years) took part in the future vision study.
As a result, positive events were evaluated with probability higher than average of realization and negative events were considered improbable (lower than average) mostly for generation and partly for country future vision. Those result confirm the research hypotheses. Prevention dominated in modern youth generation and country future vision.
The result found a lot of pessimistic bias toward country future vision. Optimistic attitudes toward generation and country future were positively correlated with general life satisfaction level and negatively correlated with past life satisfaction level. This results totally confirmed all research hypothesis.
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