title: The roles of values, behavior, and value-behavior fit in the relation of agency and communion to well-being.
abstract: Four studies examined whether agency and communion values, behaviors, or an interaction between values and behaviors (value-behavior fit) would predict well-being. In addition, Study 2 examined whether agency and communion goals, behaviors, or goal-behavior fit would predict well-being. In all four studies, participants completed online questionnaires containing measures of agency and communion values, behaviors, and well-being. In Studies 1 and 4, participants were recruited from the general population (respectively, N = 371, Mage  = 37.49, and N = 133, Mage  = 36.59). In Studies 2 and 3, participants were undergraduate students (respectively, N = 239, Mage  = 20.8, and N = 242, Mage  = 21.6). All four studies consistently found that agency and communion behaviors were significantly positively correlated with both subjective and psychological well-being. There was no strong indication that either values were directly associated with well-being. Neither was there any indication that well-being was predicted by value-behavior fit. The implications of these findings for theory and improving well-being are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Royal Holloway, University of London.
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Buchanan
authors.forename: Anat
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bardi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect / Q000502:physiology*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010551:Personality / Q000502:physiology*; D012919:Social Behavior; D012945:Social Values; D055815:Young Adult