2015 Volume 18 Issue 2 Pages 153-156
[Purpose]
The present study examined the relationship between social interest and life satisfaction in elementaryschool children.
[Methods]
The participants were 322 elementary school children (166 boys and 156 girls, who ranged from third to sixth grade). They completed two questionnaires about social interest and life satisfaction.
[Results]
Mediational analyses indicated that social interest of other-schemas significantly mediated the relationships between social interest of self-schemas and life satisfaction (bootstrap’z=6.26, p<.001, 95%CI [0.30, 0.57]).
[Conclusion]
This result suggests that social interest of other-schemas mediate the relationship between social interest of self-schemas and life satisfaction.
