Study On The Relationship Among Self-body Image,Social Comparison And Subjective Well-being:Focus On College Students

As an important indicator for evaluating college students’mental lives, happiness also plays an essential role in their healthy growth and development and impacts their socialization and maturity in significant ways. The study centers on the relationship among self-body image, social comparison and subjective well-being. College students are chosen as major subjects and a primary discussion is made. Hence, the study can provide theoretical and practical basis for further researches and facilitate the work of targeted body image tutoring for college students. Consequently, their sense of subjective well-being is promoted.By employing the methods of stratified cluster sampling and issuing MBSRQ, Social Comparison Questionnaires and GWB, the study covers900students from2colleges in Hunan province. As for statistics, the study is mainly powered by software such as SPSS19.0, AMOS17.0; with regard to analysis, methods like Multiple ANOVA, Correlation Analysis, Regression Analysis and Path Analysis are adopted, to name a few. The status in quo of and interrelations among self-relations, social comparison, and subjective well-being are as well probed into in the study. Results come as follows:(1) Compared with male students, female students put a greater emphasis on their appearances, weights, and overall body images and hope to maintain good self-body images through normal and healthy ways. Body image worries also exist in male students, and they are apt to make passive self-assessment. Scales of male students in terms of control, easy-comparability, experience, reference, and salience are much higher than those of female students. Generally, female students have a stronger sense of subjective well-being than male students.(2) Senior students pay more attention to their self-body images and strive to achieve self-perfection. Junior students are with positive attitude and relatively simple lifestyles. Negative characteristics of social comparison are more obvious for senior students.(3) Compared with students of science, medicine and liberal art, students of arts are more concerned about self-body images and think better of it. Students of liberal arts have a much stronger sense of subjective well-being than that of students of sciences, medicine, and arts.(4) Self-body image and subjective well-being have significant positive correlation, while significant negative correlation is shown among self-body images, social comparison, and subjective well-being.(5) Self-body image is a good predictor for social comparison and subjective well-being.(6) Self-body image exerts influence on both social comparison and subjective well-being, and social comparison has partly mediating effect on self-body image,subjective well-being and its dimensions.