Research On The Effects Of University Students’ Savoring Way On Subjective Well Being

Savoring way is used to assess specific cognitive and behavioral responses that individuals choose to adopt during positive events,in other words,it is a kind of self adjusting of positive emotions and positive experience.Savoring of adjusting positive experience can make people better experience life and happiness.In this fast-paced society,it is particularly important to quiet down to view themselves and to savor the positive experience to promote personal subjective well-being.Therefore it is practical significant to investigate college students savoring situation and improve college students’ ability to use different ways of savoring to enhance the well-being.This research is based on the literature review,college students as the research objects,to compiled the questionnaire of college students’ savoring way to explore current college students’ characteristics of savoring ways,understand and discuss the relationship among savoring ways,self-esteem and subjective well-being of college students.Main conclusions are as follows:(1)The ways of savoring scale has good reliability and validity.Using exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis method to get college students savoring ways consist of four dimensions:self-contentment,behavioral expression,avoid cheerful thoughts and memory structure,empirical model and theory model fit well,can be used as a tool for measuring college students savoring way.(2)There is no significant difference about college students’ savoring way on birthplace and whether only child demographic variables.But there is significant difference about college students’ savoring way on gender、major、education and grade.In terms of gender,girls’ each dimension scores were significantly higher than boys;In terms of major,expressing in behavior dimension score and memory-building dimension score of arts students are significantly higher than science students’;In terms of education,the college students in bachelor degree degree scores of self-contentment dimension were significantly higher than junior college students score;In terms of different grade,different grade of university students in addition to the way of savor to avoid cheerful thoughts there is no significant difference on dimension,there were significant differences on other dimensions.After inspection found,the scores of freshman total scores and all dimensions were significantly higher than other three grade.(3)A11 dimensions in addition to behavioral expression and subjective well-being have significant correlation;all dimensions and the total score of savoring and self-esteem have significant positive correlation;the score of self-esteem and subjective well-being have significant positive correlation.(4)Savoring can predict subjective well-being.Savoring can not only affect subjective well-being directly,but also can affect subjective well-being indirectly by self-esteem.self-esteem has mediation effects between savoring and subjective well-being.