A Study On The Subjective Well-Being And Its Related Factors For College Students Of Guangzhou

Objective to investigate the subjective well-being(SWB) of college students in Guangzhou and to explore its related factors of SWB,in order to provide some guidance to enhance the SWB,promote their psychology health and improve life quality.Methods 1773 college Students from 8 colleges in Guangzhou were investigated with Index of Well-Being Questionnaire,College Students' Stress Scale,Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire(SCSQ) and Social Support Rating Scale(SSRS).Database SPSS13.0 and LISREL8.7 were used to analyze the influencing factors.Besides, qualitative research was taken to discuss the relafed issues of SWB.Results 23.1%of the college students had inadequate SWB,with a score of 10.19±2.19. Female students reported higher scores than male did on both index of well-being and life satisfaction(t=2.96,3.61;P＜0.01 ).Student cadres reported higher scores on every aspect of SWB(t=3.82,4.97,2.54;P＜0.05 ).It has been demonstrated that students' SWB was affected by the style of parental education:democracy,indulging,despotism and doting (in descending order of score).The higher scores on index of well-being and life satisfaction were in consistent with the better family economy.Structural equation modeling(SEM) indicated that stress,passive coping style,positive coping style and social support had significant effects on SWB,the overall regression weights were -0.37, -0.08,0.34 and 0.45,respectively.Qualitative research found that college students generally had negative feeling about life.They tend to put important things of life in the following order:family,study,relationship,health and affection.The sources of their happiness were(in descending order):family's welfare,smooth social interaction, recognition,academic achievement,health and satisfied emotion.The sources of unhappiness mainly were unsmooth social interaction and disregard.Stress of the students mainly comes from schoolwork and employment,as well as the conflict of academic and extracurricular activities.The students generally had adequate support,but nevertheless some of them were incapable of utilizing the social supports. Conclusion College students had a SWB of upper middle level,but some of the students had inadequate SWB.Stress and passive coping style had passive effects on SWB.Social support and positive coping style had positive effects on SWB.by comprehensively investigating the related factors of SWB,we can provide some feasible psychology health care to cultivate the college students' positive emotion,enhance their SWB,in order to promote their psychology health and improve life quality.