An Empirical Research On Subjective Well-being Of The Postgraduate In Tourism Management

In recent years,"what is happiness","how to improve well-being" is increasingly becoming the focus of attention, also become our country academic circles one of the hottest topics. Since the reform and opening up, our people’s material life level rises greatly, accompanied by the changes of values and lifestyle, which has produced significant influence in formation of happiness view to contemporary Chinese people, especially young people,they produced a new option confused and happiness confused. As a postgraduate student with high cultural level, self and social expects higher youth groups, their happiness requirement is high. However, the postgraduate’s subjective well-being affected by various factors, the subjective well-being situation caused the author’s thinking.The postgraduate in tourism management as the high level groups in which field of tourism education, their happy experience not only related to the development of tourism education, and is also related to the development and growth of the tourism industry in our country. However, with the yearly enrollment of tourism management postgraduate groups, they are faced with academic, employment, marriage and economic pressure is more severe. In front of huge pressure, tourism management postgraduates’ subjective well-being situation can’t help make people began to concern, their subjective well-being situation and how to improve their subjective well-being level become problems that urgently need to be solved.It is in this background, this study using self-designed Academic Stress Scale, Employment Stress Scale, and Life Satisfaction Scale (Diener et al,1985), Affect Scale (Kammann&Flett,1983), to measure the postgraduate in tourism management. Through statistical analysis, get the postgraduates’current status of subjective well-being, and difference between demographic variables, including gender, grade, and students, etc. Then had an in-depth discussion of its relationship between academic stress, employment stress of each factor and subjective well-being of each dimension and came to the conclusion that Tourism management postgraduate’s subjective well-being score in middle rdi level, SWB has significant difference in the aspects of physiological health, love status, work experience, stress of supply of major and demand and scientific stress between seven factors on subjective well-being are more significant and more forecasting effect. The specific conclusions are as follows:(1) Tourism management postgraduate’s subjective well-being score in middle rdi level (4.33points, score range-3-11points), they do not show a high degree of satisfaction in their own life, but on the whole they show more positive emotions and less negative emotions.(2) Tourism management postgraduate’s subjective well-being has significant difference in the aspects of physiological health, love status, work experience. At the same time, graduate students’ subjective well-being in gender, grade, students, if the student cadre, month consumption does not exist significant differences.(3) Tourism management postgraduate’ academic pressure in middle rdi level (2.90points, score range1-5points), scientific research pressure has become the main academic pressure source.(4)Tourism management postgraduate’ employment stress is above the average level(3.58points, score range1-5points), three stress factor scores are in average level above, scoring in order: stress of job hunting competition> stress of supply and demand of major> stress of lacking of job help.(5)Academic stress, employment stress and its part factors has a significant negative correlation with tourism management postgraduate’ subjective well-being and positive affection, and a significant positive correlation with negative emotion.(6) Academic pressure and employment pressure have significant prediction of subjective well-being, stress of supply and demand of major, scientific stress, leisure time, these three factors were found to explain32.9%of the variance of subjective well-being, Among them, stress of supply and demand of major explained the strongest, accounting for22.8%of the variance in the common interpretation.(7) The employment stress has a more relevant and predicts a greater role in tourism management postgraduate’subjective well-being than academic stress.Finally, suggestions on improving the subjective well-being of tourism management postgraduate are put forward on the study results.