TRUST AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS PREDICTORS OF subjective WELLBEING OF STUDENTS

Abstract

The article proposes theoretical analysis of the trust and emotional intelligence as the predictors of
subjective well-being of an individual. It includes the results of an empirical study in which 54 students of
the Kharkiv National University by Karazin V.N. took part. The age of these students was from 17 to 23 years old. The hypothesis of our empirical study was that the trust as a fundamental psychological setting of a person, mediates the influence of emotional intelligence on subjective well-being of students. In this study the following methods were used: “Scale of Subjective Well-Being” G. Perrudet-Badoux for measuring the emotional component of subjective well-being and “Scale of Satisfaction with Life” by E. Diner for measuring the cognitive component of subjective well-being. To study an emotional intelligence we used the questionnaire of emotional intelligence N.Holl which determines the indicators of emotional awareness, control of emotions, self-motivation, empathy and recognition of emotions of other people. To determine the level of the person’s trust we use the method of studying the trust/distrust to the world, to other people and to himself that was developed by B. Kupreichenko. The effect of the trust as a mediator between an emotional intelligence and subjective well-being is the most pronounced in relation with the cognitive component. As to the emotional component, the role of general trust as a mediator relates only to the ability of managing others’ emotions and an emotional awareness. The generalized structural model of interrelationships between trust, emotional intelligence and subjective well-being is proposed.