SOCIOEMOTIONAL SELECTIVITY (FUTURE TIME PERSPECTIVE, GOAL ORIENTATION) AND SUBJECTIVE WELL BEING

Abstract

Successful old age is coveted by every individual who enters late adulthood, which is marked by selfassessment of well-being, known as subjective well-being. One of the things that affect the subjective well being is how to selectively establish the size and composition of social networks, give meaning, to obtain social goals (goal orientation), which greatly influenced by the future time perspective, and this is known with socioemotional selectivity. This study aimed to discover how the relation between future time perspective and goal orientation, with subjective well being of individuals, considering the goal orientation as a mediating variable. The subjects were 140 people late adulthood. Assessments using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results showed that the model had a relatively good fit after re-specification. Future time perspective showed significant influence on goal orientation, and goal orientation on subjective well being, and future time perspective did not showed significantly affect on the subjective well being, so the test is conducted on a second model designed by researcher and indicating that future time perspective showed significant effect on subjective well-being, so this model also showed that goal orientation is an mediating variable. Keywords: future time perspective, goal orientation, subjective well being, old age