School of Education, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
College of Education, National Taipei University of Education, Taipei, Taiwan.
PLoS One. 2021 Nov 18;16(11):e0259762. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259762. eCollection 2021.
The paradigm of positive psychology, significant in nature, helps to explain the proactivity and motivation of human agency, such as a secondary school student's state of autonomy, confidence, and personal resolve to strive for optimal learning and/or non-learning experiences. Our recent research development, in tandem with other scholars' inquiries, has focused on one aspect of positive psychology-namely, a person's achievement of 'optimal best', which reflects the maximization of his/her state of functioning (e.g., cognitive functioning). Capitalizing on our previous research, we develop a psychological concept that we term as a 'perceived feeling of energy'. A perceived feeling of energy (e.g., a perceived feeling of liveliness) is proposed to act as a 'motivational engine', or as a central driver, which then could predict and enhance a person's achievement of optimal best. Six hundred and twenty-seven university students (N = 438 women, 189 men) responded to a suite of self-report questionnaires. Structural equation modelling (SEM) techniques were used to test a conceptual model, where we focused on the antecedent (i.e., the direct impact of self-efficacy on a perceived feeling of energy) and consequence of a perceived feeling energy (i.e., the impact of a perceived feeling of energy on personal resolve, and the sustaining of optimal best). Analysis of results showed support for our original hypothesized model-for example: self-efficacy as an antecedent of energy and the central role of the energy as a predictor and potential mediator of future outcomes.
积极心理学范式具有重要意义，有助于解释人类能动性的主动性和动机，例如中学生的自主状态、信心和个人决心，以争取最佳学习和/或非学习体验。我们最近的研究进展与其他学者的研究一起，集中在积极心理学的一个方面——即一个人的“最佳最佳”成就，这反映了他/她的功能状态（例如认知功能）的最大化。利用我们之前的研究，我们开发了一个心理学概念，我们称之为“感知的能量感”。感知的能量感（例如感知的活力）被提议作为“动机引擎”或核心驱动力，然后可以预测和增强一个人实现最佳最佳的能力。627 名大学生（N=438 名女性，189 名男性）回答了一系列自我报告问卷。结构方程建模（SEM）技术用于测试一个概念模型，我们重点关注感知能量感的前因（即自我效能感对感知能量感的直接影响）和后果（即感知能量感对个人决心的影响，以及对最佳最佳的维持）。分析结果支持了我们最初的假设模型，例如：自我效能感作为能量的前因，以及能量作为未来结果的预测和潜在中介的核心作用。
