Relationship Between Boredom And Subjective Well-being Of College Students: Mediation Effect Of Depression And Learning Burnout

Boredom is a universal and common negative emotional experience of human beings, and it is indifference, helplessness and other unpleasant complex emotional state produced by individual,when he faces poor external stimuli and internal stimuli, and not experiences sufficient satisfaction to demand. Subjective well-being is a holistic evaluation about the quality of life of individual based on his own criterion, and it is a comprehensive psychological index used to measure the quality of life of an individual. Depression is also a common negative emotion, depression is sadness, hopelessness, helplessness, boredom and other negative emotional experience that occur when an individual is blocked or setbacks in the real life, and consequently leads to a variety of physiological and psychological behavior issues. If an individual is in a long period of depression, it would have a negative impact on his learning, work and life. Students may generate a series of inappropriate avoidance learning behaviors when they are not interested or have no impetus on study, learning burnout is used to describe this phenomenon. If people are in a long-term state of boredom, it may lead to serious mental health problems and bad behaviors, such as anxiety, depression, learning burnout, internet addiction, etc., thereby affect the level of people’s subjective well-being. In this study, the relationship among college students’ boredom, subjective well-being, depression and learning burnout was investigated and explored in depth with the methods of exploring literature and questionnaire. The results show that:1. "Boredom Proneness Scale of College Students", "General Well-Being Schedule", "Center for Epidemiological Survey Depression Scale" and "Burnout Inventory of College Students" were chosen in the study, they have high reliability and validity for college students’ population.2. Boredom is more common in the students of our country, but not high, at a medium level. College students’ boredom shows differences on household location and grade.3. Subjective well-being is at the middle level in the students of our country. College students’ subjective well-being shows differences on professional and grade.4. Depression is common among college students in our country and the overall situation is more serious. College students’ depression shows differences on household location and grade.5. Learning burnout is at the middle level in the students of our country. College students’ learning burnout shows differences on grade.6. College students’ boredom, subjective well-being, depression and learning burnout are relative. When boredom and subjective well-being are negative correlation, burnout, depression and learning burnout are positive correlation. When subjective well-being, depression and learning burnout are negative correlation, depression and learning burnout are negative correlation.7. College students’ boredom, subjective well-being, depression and learning burnout have multiple mediating effects.