College Students Personality, Social Support, Self-harmony, And Subjective Well-being Research

Subjective well-being is a comprehensive assessment of life satisfaction and individual emotional state, and it is a psychological measure of individual quality of life indicators. Personality, social support, self-consistency and congruence are the important influence factors of subjective well-being. Domestic and foreign scholars had undertaken extensive research on factors affecting Subjective well-being, but most research has focused on the relationship between a single factor and Subjective well-being. In this study, we did research on the relationships of personality, social support, self-consistency and congruence and subjective well-being, and further investigated social support, self-consistency and congruence as the mediator role between personality and SWB. On the one hand this study enriches the theoretical results of the subjective well-being, on the other hand, this research provides a reference and inspiration to the students'mental health education and the ways to improve their subjective well-being.In this study, subjective well-being scale, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Short Scale for Chinese version), Social Support Scale (SSRS), self-Consistency and Congruence Scale (SCCS) were used on two key universities'students in Xi'an.331valid questionnaires were received by stratified randomly sampling from one to four grades college students, of which155are boys and176are girls,203students study Science and Engineering,128study Literature and History,98are the only one child in family and232are non-only-one child in family,58are freshmen,83are sophomores,116are juniors and74are seniors.246people are from rural areas, and85people are from the city. The results show that:1. The subjective well-being of college students is at a medium level, and their positive emotions are more than negative emotions.2. The subjective well-being of different genders, majors, one child and non-only child, students from different areas, and different grades students are different. From a gender perspective, female college students'life satisfaction was significantly higher than that of male college students. From the major point of view, Literature and History Students'life satisfaction was significantly higher than that of Science and Engineering students. The only one child's life satisfaction was significantly higher than non-only child. From the point of view of different areas, life satisfaction of students from rural areas was significantly lower than that of the college students from the city. From the point of view of different grades, the negative affect of the first-year students were significantly lower than the second, third and fourth grade students.3. There is a close relationship among personality, social support, self-consistency and congruence, and subjective well-being. Extraversion and neuroticism in Personality is a significant predictor of life satisfaction, positive emotion, and negative emotion, which are the three dimensions of subjective well-being. Outgoing individuals have a higher life satisfaction, more positive emotion and less negative emotion. Neurotic individuals have lower life satisfaction, less positive emotion and more negative emotion. Psychoticism had no significant effect on the various dimensions of subjective well-being. Social support is a significant predictor of the three dimensions of subjective well-being. Individuals who got more social support have a higher life satisfaction, more positive emotion and less negative emotions. Self-consistency and congruence is also the significant predictor of the three dimensions of subjective well-being. People who have high level of self-consistency and congruence have higher life satisfaction, more positive emotion and less negative emotion.4. Social support is the mediating variable between neuroticism and subjective well-being, and is the mediator between extraversion and subjective well-being. Self-consistency and congruence is the mediating variable of neuroticism and subjective well-being, and is the mediator between extraversion and subjective well-being.Based on the above findings, the suggestions on how to improve students'subjective well-being are as follows.1. Strengthen the college students of character education, shaping a healthy personality.2. Develop good internal quality, and actively improve the social relations.3. The improvement of students'subjective well-being needs multi-force participation...