A Comparative Analysis between College Students' Subjective Well-being and That in the Nationwide Norms

A meta-analysis was applied to determine the level of college students' subjective wellbeing and the local scale,Subjective Well-being Scale for Chinese Citizen-Brief,was adopted in the studies. The total sample size was 2756. The results show that: the general subjective well-being of college students are significantly worse than that in the norm of the whole country,and the genders and majors both have no difference in this respect; With respect to the factor of family atmosphere,girl college students are significantly better than boy college students,and for the one of goal value, students majoring in liberal arts are significantly better than students majoring in science. Compared with the nationwide norms,dissertations report the difference of satisfactionfactor is larger than that in the papers of academic journals. The differences of satisfaction,social confidence,growth progress and self-acceptanceare more and more significant year by year. The regions of participants have no effect on college students' subjective well-being.