There is an increasing interest in psychology about positive outcomes in the individual. Those
are often measured by the subjective well-being of the individual. This is also the focus of
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, in which there is a central concept of psychological
flexibility. This contributes to the subjective well-being of the individual. In my master’s thesis,
I wanted to examine how different aspects of goals and values that are not included in the
concept of psychological flexibility relate to the subjective well-being of the individual, and
how these aspects relate to selected concepts of psychological flexibility. I also wanted to
examine how selected aspects (materialistic values, personal growth values, alignment
between goal and values, origin of motivation for goal (internal, identified, introjected,
external), origin of motivation for value (internal, identified, introjected, external)) together
with psychological flexibility predict subjective well-being. I predicted that all selected aspects
of goals and values would be significantly related to subjective well-being, and that both
psychological flexibility and selected aspects would be important predictors of subjective wellbeing. The study involved 151 participants aged between 18 and 68 years. The results showed
that most of the selected aspects of values and goals were significantly related to the
subjective well-being of the individual, with the exception of variables that measured the
origin of value motivation, personal growth values and origin of motivation for goal-identified.
In the prediction of subjective well-being, psychological flexibility and materialism proved to
be important predictors, while in one of the two questionnaires used for psychological
flexibility, personal values of growth and internal motivation proved to be important
predictors. Finally, I outlined som
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