East-Centric Flourishing: Contemporary Antecedents and Mechanisms

Abstract

Positive approach towards life is a concept that will eternally remain the aim of almost every individual. Hence, there is a consistent need to study factors like flourishing that help us create healthy and content individuals in our society. The current study investigates antecedents and mechanisms of flourishing by testing the relationships between religiosity, volunteerism, self-efficacy and flourishing. A mediated moderation was tested through Hayes PROCESS macro on a sample of 192 studentsto find out the significance of direct and indirect relationships among study variables. The results of the study explain significant positive relationships between religiosity, flourishing, and volunteerism. Additionally, volunteerism mediates the relationship between religiosity and flourishing while selfefficacy moderates the relationship of volunteerism and flourishing of students. Volunteerism and self-efficay also in combination with religiosity havea significant mediated moderation on flourishing of students. The results have important practical implications for the education sector, which are discussed at the end along with some future research directions.