Self-efficacy as a Predictor of Happiness through the Mediating Influence of Resilience among Young Adults

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Srijan Sengupta¹ and Debatree Mukherjee² (Department of Applied Psychology, University of Calcutta, West Bengal¹ and Department of Psychology, Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College, West Bengal²)

The present study intends to understand whether subjective happiness, self-efficacy, and resilience varied according to gender in case of young adults. Additionally, the study sought to find out the associations between the three constructs: subjective happiness, self-efficacy, and resilience. The final objective of this research was to determine the mediation effect of resilience on the predictability of subjective happiness through self-efficacy. A multi-level sampling method was used to select young adults from different colleges in West Bengal. Three standardized measurement tools were used: Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999), Generalized Self-efficacy Scale (Schwarzer & Jerusalem in 1993) and Brief Resilience Scale (Smith et al., 2008) to measure the constructs of the study. Independent sample test, Pearson’s correlational analysis and the meditational analysis were employed for statistical analyses. SPSS and the macro-PROCESS model (Hayes, 2013) were used for the analyses with re-sampling and bootstrapping methods (Hayes, 2009; McKinnon et al., 2007). Male and female participants have been found to differ significantly regarding subjective happiness and resilience. The mediation analysis revealed that resilience, the mediator, showed a partial mediation effect over the relationship between self-efficacy and happiness.