REVIEW JURNAL

Name : Muh. Afdhol Isnan

Class : Psikologi H
NIM : 200701501078

1. Reference

Martela,Frank, & Ryan, M., Richard (2016). The Benefits of Benevolence : Basic
Psychological Needs, Benefience , and the Enchancement of Well-Being. Journal of
Personality 84:6,751-763.

DOI : 10.111/jopy.12215

2. Research Purposes

The main objective of the research is to gain a better understanding of the role of
autonomy, its potential, and its relationship in explaining the benefits of well-being
and virtue. As well as to gain an understanding of the independent role of the
philanthropist as a source of human health.

3. Hypothesis

Satisfaction kindness will be associated with feeling good general (subjective well-
being and vitality) and about oneself (self-esteem) and a sense of benefit will mediate
the relationship between pro-social behavior

4. Methods

The method used in this study is to use participants and procedures, but those with
poor data quality will be eliminated (Maniacci & Roge, 2013) . The participants of
this study came from Amazon Mechanical Turk and students aged between 18 and 24
(M 5 19.9), of whom 66% were female. The majority of the sample identified as
Asian (44%) or Caucasian (38%), with the remainder composed of African
Americans (7%), Hispanics (7%), Pacific Islanders (1%), and 4% who preferred not
to say.
 5. Result

Studies 1 and 2 that this sense of beneficence fully mediated the relations between
pro-social behavior and well-being. Next in studies 2,3,and 4, a mediation analysis
showed that the connection between a sense of beneficence and well-being indeed
was partially mediated by a sense of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. More
generally, results from studies 2,3, and 4 replicated previous research on basic
psychological needs (e.g., Reis et al., 2000) by showing that autonomy, competence
and relatedness emerge as independent predictors of general well-being during peak
moments. At the same time, in studies 2,3, and 4 beneficence satisfaction predictor
remained an independent and statistically significant predictor of well-being even
when controlling for autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

6. Conclusion

The conclusion of this study is that four factors seem to explain why giving feels
good: as predicted by self-determination theory, senses of autonomy, competence,
and connectedness increase when people are able to give, and they explain a large
part of the well-being benefits of pro-social giving. At the same time, the feeling of
being able to have pro-social behavior is just fine. Understanding what makes pro-
social behavior feel good makes it possible to design future opportunities for giving
to be more satisfying and thus make people more likely to give in the future. Helping
people find inherently satisfying ways to give to and help others could in turn be a
step toward what philosophers call a life well lived.