The Relationship Between Existential Anxiety And Psychological Well-being Of College Students: The Mediating Role Of Basic Psychological Needs And Online Self-disclosure

"Decadent Culture" is the expression of college students’ existential anxiety.At present,the research on existential anxiety is mostly carried out from the perspective of philosophy and sociology rather than that of psychology.In order to understand the craze for "Decadent Culture" on the Internet among college students from a psychological perspective,and to explore the influence of College Students’ existential anxiety on their psychological well-being and its psychological mechanism in the Internet era,this paper adopted two approaches,involving a questionnaire-based survey and an experiment.Based on the self-determination theory,it explored the influence of college students’ existential anxiety on psychological well-being and the roles played by basic psychological needs and online self-disclosure.In the first study,449 college students were selected as the research objects,and the correlation among existential anxiety,psychological well-being,the role of basic psychological needs and on-line self-disclosure was studied using College Students Existential Anxiety Questionnaire,Basic Psychological Needs Scale,Online Self-disclosure Questionnaire and Psychological Well-being Questionnaire.In the second study,which was of single-factor experimental design,132 college students were selected as the research objects,and the classic mortality salience paradigm was used to manipulate existential anxiety.It explored the influence of existential anxiety on psychological well-being and the roles played by basic psychological needs satisfied and online self-disclosure.The main results are as follows:(1)Existential anxiety can negatively predict psychological well-being;(2)The satisfaction of basic psychological needs plays a mediating role between existential anxiety and psychological well-being;(3)The mediating role of online self-disclosure between existential anxiety and psychological well-being is not established,but the satisfaction of basic psychological needs and online self-disclosure play a chain mediating role between existential anxiety and psychological well-being.This study has certain theoretical and practical implications to alleviate college students’ existential anxiety and improve their psychological well-being.