A Research On Characteristics Of Master Degree Students' Subjective Well-being And The Relation With Self-esteem

As for a long time in psychology, it is more concerned to the mental status of depression, anxiety, pessimistic emotion rather than the one of happiness, satisfaction. While the psychology is developed, attentions have been paid to happiness, satisfaction since the early 20 century, it has becoming a"positive psychology", which is more concerned to humanity advantage, potential personality and so on. Subjective well-being as an essential part of positive psychology has been focused on by researchers.In order to have a precise and deep knowledge of the happiness issue, based on demonstration, psychologists have researched its forms and any other factors which can affect it and made amazing achievement in a few decades. Because of its subjectivity of subjective well-being, paradox has been arisen in results. What is subjective well-being? Experts have a deep argument about its definition, most of people consent that subjective well-being especially refers to important integrative mental index of measuring life quality of individuals, according to judging the whole life quality by himself (or herself). It includes life satisfaction, positive emotion, and negative emotion. Generally speaking, subjective well-being has features as follows: (1) Subjectivity: the judgment of subjective well-being mainly depends on individual criteria of himself (or herself), not others'or surrounding's criteria. It is only himself (or herself) who knows whether he is happy or not, so subjective well-being has a strong subjectivity; (2) Relative stability: although the judgment may be affected by environmental or emotional conditions, it still has a relative stability; (3) Entirety:...