Abstract:

Happiness and well-being are the goals shared by the majority of people in modern society. At the same time, life is filled with daily hassles. Severe stress affects psychological and somatic health negatively.

Thus, the hypothesis of this study is that subjective well-being is related to the perceived daily stress. Additionally, the subjective well-being and perception of daily stress are gender-specific.

The purpose of the study is to analyze the relationship of subjective well-being with perceived daily stress as well as to identify their gender characteristics.
The study sample consisted of 62 students of Russian universities aged 18 to 25 years (male = 27, female = 35).

Research methods: subjective well-being was measured by the methods of diagnostics of subjective well-being of the person by R.M. Shamionov & T.V. Beskova; the overall value of perceived daily stress was measured by the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) adapted for the Russian sample by V.A. Ababkov & others; the number of types of stressful events and intensity of worrying about a stressful event was measured by the Inventory of daily stressors by M.D. Petrash, O.Yu. Strizhitskaya, L.A. Golovey, S.S. Savenysheva.

Statistical methods: Shapiro-Wilk test, Levene's test, independent samples t-test, correlation analysis (Pearson correlation coefficient). Statistical processing was carried out in the JASP 0.13.1.

As a result of the study, it was found that subjective well-being negatively correlated with perceived daily stress. Overall, the value of subjective well-being and perceived daily stress did not differ significantly in the groups of young men and women. However, gender characteristics have been identified. In particular, the value of hedonistic well-being is higher in the group of young men. Also, women perceived a greater number of stressful events, but men noted their greater intensity. Moreover, men and women had different stress areas.

The relationship between subjective well-being and the perception of daily stress makes it possible to increase subjective well-being by reducing sensitivity to stressors and vice versa. That is, to reduce the amount of perceived stress by increasing subjective well-being. Increasing subjective well-being and reducing sensitivity to stressors can be achieved by using special exercises, training, psychological counseling.

Psychological work with daily stress has great potential. Many macrostressors (death or illness of relatives and friends, divorce of parents, etc.) can't be controlled. While the perception of daily stress depends almost entirely on the subject.

Keywords:

Happiness, microstressors, perceived daily stress, personality, subjective well-being, University Students.