The Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Optimism of Mindanao

State University- Senior High School Students

Dependent Variable: Life Satisfaction

“Life satisfaction is the degree to which a person positively evaluates the
overall quality of his/her life as a whole. In other words, how much the person
likes the life he/she leads” (Veenhoven, R., 1996).

Independent Variable: Optimism

Optimism has been found to correlate positively with life satisfaction and
self-esteem (Lucas, Diener, & Suh, 1996) that has a protective role of assisting
people in coping with extraordinarily trying incidents that can occur in the
future so, in this study, optimism refers to an individual’s positive disposition
and outlooks in life.

Research Questions:
1. What is the general life satisfaction rate of MSU-SHS students?
2. What is the general optimism rate of MSU-SHS students?
3. Is there a relationship between life satisfaction and optimism of
MSU-SHS students?

Life Satisfaction Model by Courtney E. Ackerman, MSc., Researcher

Life Chances Course of Events

Life Satisfaction

Evaluation of life
Flow of (Veenhoven, 1996)
Experience

In the life chances, you will find societal resources like economic welfare,
social equality, political freedom, culture, and moral order; personal resources
like social position, material property, political influence, social prestige, and
family bonds; and individual abilities like physical fitness, psychic fortitude,
social capability, and intellectual skill.

In the course of events, the events can involve factors like need or affluence,
attack or protection, solitude or company, humiliation or honor, routine or
challenge, and ugliness or beauty. These are the things that can confront us as
we go through our daily life, causing us to lean more in one direction or the
other: towards greater satisfaction or greater dissatisfaction.

The flow of experience includes experiences like yearning or satiation, anxiety

or safety, loneliness or love, rejection or respect, dullness or excitement, and
repulsion or rapture. These are the feelings and responses that we have to the
things that happen to us; they are determined by both our personal and
societal resources, our individual abilities, and the course of events.

Finally, the evaluation of life is an appraisal of the average effect of all of these
interactions. It involves comparing our own life with our idea of the “good life,”
and how the good and the bad in our life balances out.

(The Satisfaction with Life Scale to be sent on a different document.)

Optimism Model by R.A. Millstein, et al. from General Hospital Psychiatry 58

(2019)

Positive prediction See staying things as

of the near future the same and are
already good.

Positive prediction
of the far future Optimism Optimism about
oneself.

View that things Optimism towards

would get better. the world.
State Optimism Measure by R.A. Millstein, et al. from General Hospital
Psychiatry 58 (2019)
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