Passion types and subjective well-being for Saudi women: Exploratory study

Pages:325-334
Samia Bakri Abdelati (Department of Psychology, King Saud University, KSA )
Marei Salama-Younes (Department of Psychology, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt )

A growing literature is emerging about passion types and subjective well-being. No studies were interested in exploring passion types and subjective well-being for Saudi women. Three studies were conducted. Data was collected from Riyadh (n = 474, n = 241and n = 329). The first and second studies have been conducted to test the psychometric properties of passion scale for Saudi women. The goal of the third study was, however; twofold: (i) testing the mediation of subjective vitality in the relationships between HP, OP and life satisfaction and (ii) testing the effect of selected variables such as the marital status, the couple relationships conflict, the age and the leisure activities differences on passion types and life satisfaction. Passion scale (11 items) had a satisfaction validity and reliability (Study 1 and 2). HP predicted positively the subjective vitality, which directly predicted the life satisfaction, whereas OP was none significant predictor of vitality and direct negative predictor of life satisfaction. In general, the family status, couple relationships conflict, leisure activities and age had no effect neither on passion types nor on life satisfaction. Subjective vitality was partially a mediation between only harmonious passion and life satisfaction. In addition, selected variables have no effect on passion types and life satisfaction for Saudi women.