Eudaimonic Well-Being Promotes Subjective Well-Being Through Perceived Job Quality: a Multilevel Mediation Analysis across 116 Countries
摘要
Eudaimonic resources (such as autonomy, purpose, social connectedness, and sense of personal growth) can enhance job quality and performance. Accordingly, perceived job quality may serve as a pathway through which eudaimonic well-being contributes to subjective well-being. This study tested a multilevel mediation model using data from the 2020 Gallup World Poll across 116 countries, examining whether perceived job quality mediates the relationship between eudaimonic well-being and subjective well-being. Two dimensions of subjective well-being were measured: life satisfaction and affective well-being. Bayesian multilevel mediation analyses revealed that, at the individual level, higher eudaimonic well-being was associated with greater perceived job quality, which, in turn, was linked to both higher life satisfaction and affective well-being. Therefore, the mediation hypothesis was supported for both aspects of subjective well-being at the individual level. At the country level, however, mediation was supported for affective well-being but not for life satisfaction. Overall, these results highlight the relevance of eudaimonic skills and resources in fostering optimal work experiences and emphasize the role of job quality as a mediating mechanism connecting eudaimonic resources to subjective well-being.