The Relationships Of General Trust And Trait Anxiety In College Students:the Chain Mediating Effect Of Perceived Social Support And Subjective Well-being

With the popularization of higher education,it has become a common phenomenon that more and more college students leave the cities where they have lived for many years to study in other places.In the new environment,college students need to face more complex social relations and face more unknown challenges,which makes college students in a state of anxiety easily.General trust is a belief that individuals choose to trust interactive objects and take risks in the context of lack of information and certain potential risks.Moreover,it is a positive expectation for the unknown situation,which plays an important role in alleviating anxiety.Understanding the significance of social support for individuals lies in that the emotional,understanding,information and instrumental support experienced from social interaction can enable individuals to obtain more information and support and help them cope with difficulties and setbacks.To some extent,general trust can facilitate the establishment of existing social support perception.As a positive experience generated from an individual’s evaluation of life state,subjective happiness can promote individuals to reasonably cope with environmental changes and treat setbacks in life with a peaceful and inclusive attitude.Therefore,this study based on social capital theory and social cognitive theory,to explore the relationship between general trust and trait anxiety,and to realize social support and subjective well-being as included in the model,to explore the realization of social support and subjective well-being in general trust and can play a mediating role between trait anxiety,enrich the existing related research of trait anxiety.This research adopts the "general trust scale","trait anxiety scale","understanding social support scale" and "life satisfaction scale,the measurement was conducted in 502 college students,using AMOS20.0 and SPSS software to analyze data,using the research methods including independent samples t test,single factor analysis of variance,correlation analysis,regression analysis and structural equation model to explore understanding of the relationship between social support and trust,specific results are as follows:(1)College students’ general trust,trait anxiety,comprehension of social support and subjective well-being are above the average,indicating that with high social support and well-being,individuals are more likely to feel anxiety in life.(2)By comparing the dimensions of general trust,trait anxiety,perceived social support and subjective well-being of college students of different genders,the study found that there was no significant difference between college students of different genders.(3)By comparing the dimensions of general trust,trait anxiety,perceived social support and subjective well-being of students of different grades,the study found that there was no significant difference between college students of different grades.(3)The correlation between age and perceived social support,general trust,subjective well-being and trait anxiety was analyzed,and it was found that the correlation between age and the above factors was very low and did not reach the significant level.(4)The correlation test of college students’ general trust,trait anxiety,perceived social support and subjective well-being found that college students’ general trust,trait anxiety,perceived social support and subjective well-being had significant pair correlation.(5)College students’ perception of social support played a partial mediating role in the relationship between general trust and trait anxiety.(6)College students’ subjective well-being played a complete mediating role between general trust and trait anxiety.(7)College students’ perception of social support and subjective well-being played a chain mediating role between general trust and trait anxiety.