Research On Coping Styles, Positivity Ratio And Well-being Of College Students

This study is based on multi-dimensional perspective to evaluate well-being. To explorethe relationships among subjective well-being, psychological well-being and social well-beingfrom integrated multi-dimensional perspective. This study aims to describe the currentsituations of college students’ coping styles, positivity ratio and well-being (subjectivewell-being, psychological well-being and social well-being), and their differences indemographic variables, as well as exploring the influence of different types of coping styles onthe well-being and the impact mechanism, which may contribute to a new theoretical basis andpractical thinking for training college students’ effective coping styles, raising college students’positivity ratio and improving their well-being.The study consists of two parts, of which:(1)Study1:To explore the students’ well-being modelUsing random sampling method to select410college students in Zhejiang as subjects.Adopting the life satisfaction(SWB),psychological well-being part of―Multiple HappinessQuestionnaire‖and―Social Well-being Questionnaire‖, respectively to study college students’subjective well-being, psychological well-being and social well-being and analyze therelationships among three types of well-being. The study aims to conduct confirmatory factoranalysis on the integration of three types of well-being to explore college students’ well-beingmodel.(2)Study2:To study the relationships among coping style, positivity ratio and well-being.The results of the integration of three types of well-being in study1were used as theempirical evidence. Adopting questionnaires survey as its research methods,420collegestudents were investigated to explore the relationship among coping styles, positivity ratio andwell-being with―Multiple Happiness Questionnaire‖,―Social Well-being Questionnaire‖,―PANAS Questionnaire‖and―Coping Styles Questionnaire‖. And using structural equation model to test positivity ratio intermediary role between coping styles and well-being.The studyaims to explore the effect of different types of coping styles on the well-being and the impactmechanism. The results are as follows：1.College students’ subjective well-being, psychological well-being and social well-beingare interrelated and independent structure and the three together constitute a structural model ofwell-being.2.The college students’ well-being is in a moderate level. The college students’ averagepositivity ratio is1.9:1, which is lower than the best ratio of3:1but close to most people’s2:1.And college students tend to use more positive coping styles.3.Differences in the demographic variables exists on coping styles, psychology well-beingand social well-being. There exists differences between sex and grade in college students’coping styles. Females perform better than males, so do seniors than other grades. The collegestudents’ negative coping styles also have differences on grade. Seniors’ psychology well-beinglevel show higher than other grades. The levels of social well-being show higher in leaders ofclass than those who are not.4.There is a significant positive correlation between positive coping styles and subjectivewell-being, psychological well-being and social well-being. And positive coping styles canpredict three kinds of well being above.5.The college students’ positivity ratio can be applied to predict the subjective well-being,psychological well-being and social well-being.6.The college students’ positivity ratio has partial mediator effect between positive copingstyles and well-being (subjective well-being, psychological well-being and social well-being).Eventually, this study provides some suggestions in improving the levels of collegestudents’ well being, also discussing research deficiencies and related methods.