A Study On The Relationship Between Androgyny, Coping Styles And Subjective Well-being Among College Students

The information-oriented age and global multicultural coexistence insert much higher requirements of adaptabilities in society and intercommunication ability among peoples. It has long been a heated topic from ancient time that how to upgrade our well-being. What kind of people can adopt much more mature and positive coping styles and have upper-level Well-being? Based on the educational ideal of androgyny and androgyny of gender-role differences studies, through sampled questionnaire investigations among college students, this paper tries to explore the following aspects and expect to provide some valid reference for androgyny education: the existence and the characteristics of androgyny personality; whether a people who possesses androgyny personality has much more mature and positive coping styles and has upper-level well-being; whether the coping styles is a mediator between androgyny and subjective well-being. The research results indicate:1. There are obvious differences in androgyny within specialty distribution, but there are no significant differences in sex, nationality, grade, and family background.2. There are significant differences in the scores obtained in problem-solving, seek-helping among all gender groups and all index researched of subjective well-being. The comparison between androgyny and other three gender groups showed varied distinctness.3. The college students who possess androgyny have more mature and positive coping styles.4. Androgyny can promote to gain life satisfaction and obtain positive emotion.5. Adopt of problem-solving and help-seeking can improve life satisfaction and obtain positive emotion.6. The more mature coping styles: problem-solving and help-seeking are mediators between life satisfaction and positive emotion. The improvement of life satisfaction and obtaining of positive emotion are partially affected by the mediators of problem-solving and help-seeking...