Anasakti, the Hindu ideal, and its relationship to well-being and orientations to happiness.
Anasakti, a Sanskrit term for traits like non-attachment, equipoise, selfless duty orientation, and effort in the absence of concern for the outcome, can be regarded as a Hindu-ideal cluster of personality traits. The relationship of Anasakti with well-being and the three distinct happiness orientations was explored through a study of 676 college students and a sample of 65 yogic practitioners in India. The findings revealed that the yogic practitioners were markedly higher in Anasakti than the secular population. For the yogic population, there was a large correlation between Anasakti and the Orientation to Meaningful Life, and it accounted for more than 20% of the variance in the regression of Anasakti against all the measures of well-being. The yogic population's scores also correlated with several other measures of well-being. The scores of the secular population were less strongly related to the well-being scores; though, several correlation coefficients were statistically significant.
Psychology Department, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D018596:Hinduism / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D012044:Regression Analysis; D029181:Spirituality; D015013:Yoga / Q000523:psychology*