The Influence Of Explanatory Style On Subjective Well-being

As an eternal research topic in the field of psychology,psychologists have gradually explored the influence of a single factor on subjective well-being to explore the influence of multiple factors on subjective well-being.Martin e.p.seligman,founder of positive psychology,believes that explanatory style,as the core factor of personality in positive psychology,is an important influencing factor of subjective well-being and one of the determinants for different individuals to experience different happiness in the face of the same situation.Objective: This study will revise the Chinese explanatory style questionnaire and further explore how explanatory style influences subjective well-being through mental resilience and self-efficacy.Methods:(1)Revised Chinese version of explanatory style questionnaire.First of all,English teachers and psychology graduate students were invited to jointly translate the original English questionnaire,and 732 college students were given the prediction quantity.According to the data analysis results,19 questions were deleted.Then,an open questionnaire was used to collect and summarize 15 good events and 15 bad events considered by college students.Combined with the interview opinions of experts and subjects,19 questions were newly compiled according to the original dimension,and the questions left in the original questionnaire were formed into a formal questionnaire.Then the formal questionnaire was used to test 508 college students again.According to the data analysis results,10 questions were deleted to confirm the formal questionnaire.Finally,the reliability of the formal questionnaire,the model fitting degree and the validity of the calibration association with the self-rating scale of depression were tested.(2)Using the revised Chinese version explain style questionnaire,Chinese mental resilience scale,general self-efficacy scale and the analysis of Chinese urban residents subjective well-being scale short form four variables in the differences of demographic information,four variables related,and explain how style through mental toughness and self-efficacy impact on subjective well-being.Participants: We recruited freshmen and seniors from four universities in jiangxi,China to participate in this study.Conclusions:(1)The reliability and validity of the revised Chinese version of the explanatory style questionnaire meet the statistical requirements and can be used as an effective tool to measure the explanatory style of college students.(2)Explanatory style can affect subjective well-being through psychological resilience and self-efficacy.