ABSTRACT
To gain an understanding of how on-call workers obtain well-being, studies are needed that examine how they achieve happiness. Some previous studies show that meaning in life is positively correlated with subjective well-being. However, there are also studies that show no correlation between the two variables. Another study shows an indication of the mediating role of forgiveness and hope in the relationship between meaning in life and subjective well-being. This study attempts to examine the relationship between meaning in life with subjective well-being through the mediating role of forgiveness and hope in a sample of 257 on-call employees (males: 144; females: 113; mean age: 27.73) in Jakarta, Indonesia. The Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ; Steger, Frazier, Oishi, & Kaler, 2006), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS; Diener, Emmons, Larsen, & Griffin, 1985), the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience (SPANE; Diener, Scollon, & Lucas, 2009), the Adult Dispositional Hope Scale (ADHS), the State Hope Scale (SHS) (Snyder & Lopez, 2007), and the Heartland Forgiveness Scale (HFS; Thompson et al., 2005) were used. The data analysis was conducted using a double-mediation method that was proposed by Hayes (2013). The results show that there was positive correlation between meaning in life and SWB, meaning in life and forgiveness, meaning in life and hope, SWB and forgiveness, SWB and hope, and forgiveness and hope. The findings of this study indicated that forgiveness and hope significantly mediated the relationship between meaning in life and subjective well-being. This study indicates that increasing meaning in life predicts greater forgiveness and predicts greater subjective well-being in on-call employees. The greater the meaning in life possessed by on-call employees, the more increased are their hopes, which then positively influence their subjective well-being.
