College Students Gratitude, The Relationship Between Negative Life Events And Happiness Research

The research aims to inquire into the characteristics of the gratitude of university students, and study the relation among their negative life events, gratitude, well-being.Then, the study provides the support about how to enhance the gratitude level of university students, as well as provides some enlightenment and education proposals for gratidude education.The content of the research is as follows:The research makes a questionnaire about gratitude’s psychological trait. Using the method of questionnaire test,the research inquiries the characteristics of the gratitude of university students,and analyzes the relationship among university students’ negative life events,gratitude and well-being.The research result is as follows:1.The gratitude psychological trait questionnaire has passed the tests of reliability and validity, could be used in advanced researches.2. Most university students’ gratitude levels are middle or high, but a small number of students still have low scores.There are significant gender and grade differences in university students’ gratitude, while there are no differences in region, major and whether a signal child in family.3. The negative life events of university students is negatively related to their well-being and gratitude,while their gratitude is positively related to their well-being.The negative life events of university students can forecast their well-being, The negative life events of university students can aslo forecast their gratitude, while the negative lifeevents and gratitude of university students can forecast their well-being. So university students’ gratitude makes the role of agency between their negative life events and their well-being.