The Influence Of Social Comparison And Locus Of Control Towards Adolescent Subjective Well-being

Subjective well-being is one of the important studying fields in positive psychology, and it is also becoming the hot topic of psychology studying. It has significant realistic meaning that studying the 2-grade students in senior high school among adolescents, because we can not only learn their well-being state, but also get some suggest about making mental consultation and corresponding mental health education. The final aim is changing the students' life quality and improving the health level of both their physicality and mentality.Social comparison is one of the elements that influencing subjective well-being universally, mean while, personality is the medi-element that influencing social comparison and subjective well-being. This study is trying to discuss that how the locus of control among personality traits influences adolescent well-being in the scene of social comparisons. We have two experiments. In the first experiment, we discuss how the upward comparison (with others performing better) and downward comparison (with others performing worse) influence adolescent well-being when...