Primary School Students’Subjective Well-being, And Its Relations With Personality And Parenting Style

Subjective Well-being (SWB) refers to individuals’evaluations of their lives, and includesthree components: life satisfaction, the presence of positive emotional experiences, and theabsence of negative emotional experiences. SWB is an important comprehensive psychologicalindex to measure the mass of people’s life satisfaction .The SWB of primary school students is ina soar progress, and is influenced by many aspects, among which personality is the mostimportant one. Parenting style’s differences also have influences on the development ofchildren’s SWB. The purpose of this research is to investigate the relations between SWB,personality, and parenting style among primary school students.323 primary school students were investigated using the Multidimensional Students’LifeSatisfaction Questionnaire, Parenting Style Questionnaire, and Personality Questionnaire etc.Using ANOVA, MANOVA, correlation analysis, and regression analysis to analyze the data set,we found the following results:1 There are significant gender differences in the SWB、personality and parenting style ofprimary school students. Female students’scores were higher than male students’in alldimensions of life satisfaction (family, friends, school, living environment and self). In allpersonality characteristics, boys’scores were higher than girls. Compared to girls, boysreported more physical coercion, verbal hostility, and authoritarian and punishment from parents.2 Positive correlations were found between SWB and Extraversion(E) of personality, andnegative correlations between SWB and Neuroticism(N), Psychoticism(P) of personality.3 Father’s warmth support conduct and democracy will produce positive influences tochildren’s development of SWB, while father’s body compel, verbal hostility, and arbitrarypunishment will produce negative influences to children’s development of SWB.4 Regression analysis indicated that after controlling for the effect of children’s gender etc,P and N negatively predicted satisfactions of family, friends, school and living environment, andE positively predicted all dimensions of SWB.5 The parents’inducting and guidance will have moderated the relationship between N andfamily satisfaction, and the physical coercion will have moderated the relationship between Pand friends satisfaction.