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An Empirical Study On The Influence Of College Students' Gratitude Tendency On Subjective Well-being

Posted on:2018-01-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330518492294Subject:Basic Psychology
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As an active human power,Thanksgiving is not only closely related to all aspects of people,but also plays a driving role in the transmission of Chinese virtues.Although Thanksgiving is very important but in the study of psychology has almost belong to a blank state,but since Seligman et al.In the end of twentieth Century the positive psychology,positive psychology is very much like a rapidly spreading fire quickly penetrate in life,bringing home more and more people began to become increasingly pay attention to study of positive psychological quality,influenced by positive psychology psychology researchers began to pay more and more attention on Thanksgiving field,but the existing domestic research for related research,experimental study on gratitude at this stage is still in the exploration period.Nietzsche once said: "gratitude is the health of the soul",Rock said: "Thanksgiving is a spiritual treasure".Positive psychology theory holds that when a person has an open mind,gratitude,optimism and other emotions or qualities,the individual will feel happy.However,in psychology,happiness is a complex state of mind,which is influenced by the interaction of subjective and objective factors.In twentieth Century,as a result of the positive psychology gradually being paid attention to by the scholars,the subjective well-being has been favored by many psychology researchers in the year of 40 s and 50 s.Individual subjective well-being can not only reflect the level of their quality of life,but also can reflect their mental health is good.We are all the product of society,we can not live without the relationship between people,we almost every day to deal with different people,such as family members or classmates,friends,etc..Harvey Mackay had a relationship among our daily metaphor of a well in this process,although we need to pay a sweat,but the precious wealth that we can harvest the inexhaustible.In addition,some people have pointed out that the greatest pain in life is derived from interpersonal disharmony.It is obvious that interpersonal relationship is very important in our life.Considering the important value of importance among human beings of gratitude and subjective well-being and interpersonal relationships in our lives,to carry out a study,600 college students in Nanyang city to a higher vocational college in 4 departments in 12 classes as the research object,the premise of using the method of questionnaire to understand the students' gratitude and subjective well-being of the status quo and the relationship between the two,from the discussion of the interpersonal relationship between the two mechanisms from the perspective of research.Considering the important value in our life of gratitude and subjective well-being,to carry out the study in two,try to two classes of a Nanyang City Vocational College Students(different from study)as the research object,the experimental group and control group before and after the test and tracking test design,with the help of WeChat NEW media platform in order to investigate the influence of College Students' gratitude on subjective well-being from the perspective of research for the university with the help of WeChat new media platform to carry out related work,promote college students' subjective well-being level and provide a theoretical basis and a different perspective to enhance intervention.The results of this study show that(1)there is no significant difference in gender,family residence and only child in gratitude tendency,but there is significant difference between grade and student cadre.(2)the subjective well-being level of college students is higher as a whole,and the subjective well-being level of female college students is significantly different from the norm level.(3)college students' gratitude tendency is positively related to subjective well-being,and the gratitude tendency of college students has a positive predictive effect on subjective well-being.(4)interpersonal relationship plays a partial mediating role between College Students' gratitude tendency and subjective well-being.(5)expressing gratitude can improve the level of subjective well-being of college students,and the effect can last for some time.
Keywords/Search Tags:college students, expressing gratitude, subjective well-being, empirical study
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