A Study On The Relationship Between Positive Emotion And Comprehensive Well-being Of College Graduates:the Mediating Role Of The Sense Of Life Meaning

As one of the most important groups to fulfill the socialist core values and realize the Chinese dream,college graduates have an important influence on the development of society and the State.After leaving school,college graduates have no academic pressure,but at the same time they face more complex and diverse social environment.The social reality has put forward more demands on them,they are faced with bigger challenges,such as: the problem of career development planning,interpersonal problems in social work,the problem of realizing self value and so on.Not only is it difficult to find a job after graduation,but even after finding a job,sticking to or trying to get more growth opportunities from the work is still fraught with uncertainty,so college graduates are emotionally anxious,lack of psychological security,and happiness seems to be out of reach,however,the more individuals seem to be pressured outside,the easier to want to find the meaning of life and its value,sense of life meaning has an important influence on their emotions and well-being.On the study of happiness,compared with the psychological well-being,the predecessors focused on subjective well-being,with the development of research,there are more and more researchers constantly suggested that we should integrate the two into an organic whole,that is,comprehensive well-being,which was put forward by Dr.Miao Yuan jiang in his doctoral dissertation,it includes 9 dimensions.Based on the above situation,this research from the positive psychology angle of view,using the method of questionnaire survey,250 questionnaires were randomly distributed to college graduates,243 valid questionnaires were collected,aims to understand the college graduates' positive emotion and the happiness condition,on the basis of the previous researches,sense of life meaning was included,and there was an attempt to test its mediating effect between positive emotion and comprehensive well-being.The validated factors were analyzed by MPLUS software,and the measuring tool's reliability test,descriptive statistics,T-Test,variance analysis,correlation and regression analysis were analyzed by SPSS21.0 software as well as Bootstrapping to do the intermediary effect test,the following results are obtained:1.The overall positive emotional level of college graduates is higher,and there is significant difference in the one demographic variable of the degree of the work and interest matching.2.The overall sense of life meaning of college graduates is higher,and there are significant differences in the two demographic variables,such as the monthly salary,the degree of the work and interest matching.3.The overall comprehensive well-being of college graduates is higher,and there are significant differences in the three demographic variables in the partial dimensions of comprehensive happiness,such as the gender,monthly salary,the degree of the work and interest matching.4.Positive emotion is significant positive correlated with the sense of life meaning,and there are significant positive correlated with the 8 dimensions(except for the dimension of negative affect)of comprehensive well-being as well as the self-evaluation of happiness,weak negative correlation between positive emotion and negative affect dimension,and there are significant positive correlation between the sense of life meaning and the 8 dimensions(except for the dimension of negative affect)of comprehensive well-being as well as the self-evaluation of happiness,significant negative correlation between the sense of life meaning and negative affect dimension.5.The sense of life meaning plays a mediating role in the relation between the positive emotion and the various dimensions of the comprehensive well-being,among them,in life satisfaction,personality growth,self-worth,friendly relation,health concern,negative affect six dimensions are complete intermediary effect,in life vitality,altruistic behavior,positive affect and self-reported well-being are partial mediating effect.Based on the above results,we know that there are correlations between the positive emotion,the sense of life meaning and comprehensive well-beingof college graduates,and the sense of life meaning is the mediating variable between positive emotion and comprehensive well-being.Finally,this paper puts forward practical suggestions for schools,individuals and organizations to help more graduates to promote positive emotion,enhance the sense of life meaning,and so that can improve the experience of comprehensive well-being,realize the vigorous development of life.