A Study On Postgraduate's Subjective Well-being And It's Promoting Strategies

Subjective well-being may be defined as people's global evaluation of their lives by their own criteria. It is an important psychological index of life quality. It's a proposition which relates to many subjects, such as philosophy, ethnics, pedagogy and so on. A study on postgraduates' subjective-well-being is of great theoretical and practical significance.Based on the review of the concepts, theoretical models and factors of subjective well-being, this research was to explore the characteristic of postgraduates' subjective well-being and the relationship between subjective well-being and learning life factors. The assessment scale (the brief subjective well-being scale for Chinese citizens)we used was made up by Xing Zhan jun and the study was to verify the reliability and validity of it. The main conclusions are as follows: postgraduates are dissatisfied on their economic lives; a lot of facctors have great impact on postgraduates' subjective- well-being, such as pressure of obtaining employment, social support , the satisfaction on freedom of learning and campus' environment ,satisfaction on leisure and so on. Postgraduates' state of subjective well-being was significantly lower than those of Shandong citizens, but this trend reversed in domain of body-heath and material satification, and no difference was found in domains of mental health and mentality balance.Finally, according to the results, seveles pieces of strategy for upgrading postgraduate students' subjective well-being are presented: made students realize the relationship between subjective well-being and money, cultivate students' ability of obtainning employment and direct them getting jobs, build freedom and harmonious atmosphere, offer postgraduates necessary sustainment, improve qualityof leisure life, made them learn to accommodate themselves. These strategies will be helpful to improve life quality and the healthy level of postgraduates' body and mind. It is also conducive to the optimizing of postgraduates' cultivation.