In the 1980's, the concept of subjective well-being came under observation as soon as it was raised. For more than 30 years, the achievements in subjective well-being research are now coming in thick and fast. Researchers try to looked at all aspects of the subjective well-being, and one of the researches is to study the modifying factors of subjective well-being. Social support as a modifying factor of subjective well-being is becoming a cause for concern in recent years. How about the influence of social support as a kind of external help to subjective well-being? In consideration of that the outcome of former studies is not uniform, and the studies on youth are less, this study takes senior high school students as subjects, aims to have a good grip of the actual state of their social support, subjective well-being and the relationship between them, to explore how to raise their subjective well-being, and provide some guidance for their social adaptation and mental health. First, this article gives an overview of the former studies related, then studies on 452 senior high school students from Jinan city by the means of both questionnaire and private interview, gives an analysis on the study outcome, and gives some advice on how to raise their subjective well-being and school education. To supply the need of the study and the development of this area, the "questionnaire of social support of senior high school students" and the "questionnaire of subjective well-being of senior high school students" are formulated during the study. The results of the study conclude that: 1 Most senior high school students' social support scores is relatively high, but few students' scores is excessively low. 2 The subjective well-being scores of senior high school students is high as a whole, but a few students' scores is too low. 3 The social support of senior high school students influence their subjective well-being evidently.
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