The Study Of The Relationship Between Leisure Satisfaction And The Subjective Well-being Of University Students

Subjective well-being is one of the important indicators of the quality of people's lives, and it is also an main element of the positive psychology research. Both at home and abroad, researchers have discovered Leisure has an important impact on subjective well-being. Subjective well-being in the country is still relatively new area of research.This study not only enriched the relevant theoretical research, but also enlightened university students for leisure education and mental health development.This paper,based on the research results about leisure and subjective well-being at home and abroad, conducts a questionnaire survey to university students in Changsha, and then study the returned data using a series of quantitative analysis methods. The purpose of the empirical study is to exploring the impact of leisure satisfaction on subjective well-being of university students by related theories, differences between university students with different backgrounds in leisure satisfaction and subjective well-being, a detail study of university students'leisure satisfaction and subjective well-being and the relationship between the two. In this study, reliability testing, confirmatory factor analysis, single factor analysis of variance, Pearson correlation analysis and canonical correlation analysis of quantitative statistical methods are used.The study found that leisure satisfaction of university students in Changsha in the mid to upper level. That is to say, not reached yet but tends to the basically satisfied; subjective well-being is also at the medium level. Overall, there are significantly different of leisure satisfaction only among the different grades students. However specific to each dimension, there are some significant different between students of different backgrounds, especially low-grade, low-income of families university students usually have lower leisure satisfaction in the aspects of psychological, aesthetic or social, and lower subjective well-being either. The study reached the same results with their predecessors, namely, demographic factors on the subjective well-being of the predictive power is small, subjective well-being of university students with different backgrounds have little sense of difference. Students at all levels of leisure satisfaction, and subjective well-being are significantly related to their various dimensions, the higher students'leisure satisfaction, the higher the degree of subjective well-being. Further analysis of the date, it comes to a conclusion that there is a group of canonical correlation coefficient between university students'leisure satisfaction and subjective well-being, and it is moderate positive correlation. The leisure satisfaction of university students is through the first canonical correlation coefficient (U1) associated with subjective well-being by the first canonical correlation coefficient (V1) of subjective well-being. In this case, the leisure satisfaction of university students is are mainly satisfied in physical, psychological and aesthetic. So according to the research results, students'leisure satisfaction can effectively predict their subjective well-being. Based on these findings, the paper made some suggestions that enhance university students'sense of subjective well-being from the aspect of leisure. Because of students with different backgrounds is different in leisure satisfaction, educators in universities necessarily to take more care about students'leisure life, especially those in low-grade and with low-families income. Lastly, the paper concludes with a discussion of the innovation in this study, the inadequacies and its outlook.