Title: An analysis of psychological well-being

Authors: Richa Banerjee; Subeer Banerjee

Addresses: Prestige Institute of Management and Research Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India ' Prestige Institute of Management and Research Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic period since December 2019 has a huge psychological impact. Everyone is facing mental health issues and problems. The increasing anxiety, uncertainty has raised concern. The objective of the study is to explore the interaction of happiness, self-esteem and psychological well-being of educators. Educators are on an entirely different front during this period. The studies have been done to allying self-esteem and happiness, in the investigation we attempted to investigate the two factors self-esteem and happiness corresponding to the psychological well-being of educators. Present study considered self-esteem and happiness which are predicting psychological well-being. Participants in the study were 113 female and 127 male academicians. The three variables were checked against relationships between the variables with the help of SEM. Structural equation modelling was done with the help of Amos18. The results indicated that happiness, self-esteem affects psychological well-being. Simultaneously self-esteem is not influencing the happiness of academicians.

Keywords: psychological well-being; PWB; happiness; self-esteem.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBEX.2026.153063

International Journal of Business Excellence, 2026 Vol.38 No.3, pp.308 - 320

Received: 24 Aug 2020
Accepted: 07 Oct 2021
Published online: 21 Apr 2026 *

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