The Bulletin of National Defence University of Ukraine

  • Received 16.08.2025,
  • Revised 18.09.2025,
  • Accepted 30.09.2025
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Vol. 20, No. 5, 2025
  • subjective well-being; youth; personality (dispositional) traits; values; meaning of life; goals of life; self-efficacy; self-esteem; optimism
  • https://doi.org/10.33099/2617-6858-2025-87-5-16-25
  • Pages 16-25

The article presents a theoretical analysis of the concept of «subjective well-being». closest to the phenomenon of subjective well-being. Hedonic and eudaimonic approaches are described as the main ones that formed modern studies of well-being. The personal determinants of subjective well-being are analyzed

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