Killing the cats or satisfying the human? The role of epistemic curiosity in adolescents’ multidimensional well-being

IF 2.8 3区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1177/18344909231185381
Tianya Li, Haoyan Huang, Jia Liu, Xin Tang
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The role of epistemic curiosity in achievement has been widely acknowledged. In recent years, research has started to understand the broad effect of curiosity, and thus the association between curiosity and well-being is of special interest. Yet, studies so far have found both beneficial and detrimental effects of curiosity on well-being, leaving inconclusive findings. The present study aimed to understand the associations between epistemic curiosity and well-being from a multidimensional perspective. We further examined whether there were individual differences (i.e., gender and grade) among those associations. For those purposes, 315 adolescents in 4–6th grades were surveyed, and their two epistemic curiosity (i.e., joyous curiosity and deprivation curiosity) and five well-being (i.e., physical, dietary, emotional, psychological, and academic well-being) indicators were measured. Results indicated that (1) joyous curiosity was unanimously associated with five well-being domains while deprivation was not; (2) among five well-being indicators, the closest association to curiosity is academic well-being, whereas dietary well-being was the least close; and (3) neither gender nor grade moderated the association between epistemic curiosity and well-being. In conclusion, we found that joyous curiosity was a consistent beneficial factor for well-being, and the effects were not related to gender or grade among early adolescents.
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杀猫还是满足人类?认知好奇心在青少年多维幸福感中的作用
认识论好奇心在成就中的作用已得到广泛认可。近年来,研究已经开始了解好奇心的广泛影响,因此好奇心和幸福之间的关系是特别感兴趣的。然而,迄今为止的研究发现了好奇心对幸福感的有益和有害影响,但没有得出结论性的结论。本研究旨在从多维角度了解认知好奇心与幸福感之间的关系。我们进一步研究了这些关联中是否存在个体差异(即性别和年级)。为此,对315名4 - 6年级的青少年进行了调查,测量了他们的两项认知好奇心(即欢乐好奇心和剥夺好奇心)和五项幸福感(即身体、饮食、情感、心理和学业幸福感)指标。结果表明:(1)快乐好奇与5个幸福域一致相关,而剥夺好奇与5个幸福域不一致;(2)在5项幸福感指标中,与好奇心关系最密切的是学业幸福感,与好奇心关系最不密切的是饮食幸福感;(3)性别和年级均不影响认知好奇心与幸福感之间的关系。总之,我们发现快乐的好奇心是一个持续的有益因素,对早期青少年的影响与性别或年级无关。
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Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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