Psychological Development and Education ›› 2006, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (3): 60-64.

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Researches into Relations among Social-support, Self-esteem and Subjective Well-being of College Students

YAN Biao-bin1,2, ZHENG Xue1   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631;
    2. Department of pedagogy of Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing 526061
  • Online:2006-07-15 Published:2006-07-15

Abstract: This study explored the influence of social support and self-esteem on subjective well-being in 300 college students with questionnaire.The results indicted(1) Bivariate correlation suggested that social support,self-esteem and whole subjective well-being,life satisfaction and positive affects correlated significantly with each other,while social support,self-esteem negatively correlated with negative effects.(2) Regression analysis showed further indication that there was good regression relation between social support and self-esteem whole subjective well-being,life satisfaction,positive effects and negative effects,and then self-esteem was a mediator factor between social support and SWB because its good regression relation with whole subjective well-being,life satisfaction,positive effects and negative effects based on social support.(3) Equations(EQS) 5.7b further validated that self-esteem was a mediator factor between social support and subjective well-being.

Key words: social support, college students, subjective well-being

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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