The Role of Basic Beliefs in Predicting Life Management Strategies (Selection, Optimization, & Compensation)

Abstract

Present research aimed at studying the role of believing in world meaningfulness and favorable self in prediction of life management strategies. This study was a kind of descriptive research which was done by correlation method. The population was all university students of Qouchan, Iran in which 467 of them (255 boys and 212 girls) were chosen by proportional stratified sampling. Their age range was from 28 to 50. In order to gather data Basic Belief Inventory (BBI) and selection, optimization, and compensation questionnaire (SOC) were used. To find the relationship among variables Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis were used by enter method. Findings revealed that believing in world meaningfulness and favorable-self have positive significant relationship with all components of life management strategies, in fact they can predict all components of life management strategies. Therefore people who consider their surrounding more meaningful, have more optimal beliefs in themselves, and use SOC strategies in their life management strategies more than others. In other words they can control their lives more successfully.