THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT OF LIFE SATISFACTION AND SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING

Abstract

The article examines the theoretical and practical aspects of supporting the subjective well-being of the individual, in particular through the awareness of the senses and meanings of the emotional-semantic “foundation” of subjective trouble: analysis, modeling of subject connections with significant external objects. Empirical evidence points to a difference in the practice of psychological support for subjective well-being and its theoretical model. The theoretical model assumes work at three levels: goal-setting (to understand the nature of one’s own meanings), reflection on one’s own life activity, and restructuring of relations with the world. An analysis of empirical data makes it possible to highlight an interesting fact: the manifested level of subjective well-being of the subjects is not always confirmed by a real happy personality picture and readiness for positive changes. Despite certain discrepancies and contradictions between the theoretical and practical consideration of the problem of optimizing subjective well-being, it seems possible to single out the indisputable target aspects that unite them: the need to understand the process of one’s own sense-building and “personal preparation” of a person for this process.