Study on the relationship between social support and subjective well-being for students in applied undergraduate colleges

Based on the sampling survey on 990 students in 4 applied undergraduate colleges in Anhui Province,the study employs the scaling method to analyze the relationship between social support and subjective well-being(SWB),and to evaluate the influence of social support on SWB.The result suggests: 1.There are gender differences in terms of support exploitation degree,total grade of social support,life satisfaction,negative emotion and general well-being;females get higher scores than males in negative emotion,but lower in other aspects.However,there are no gender differences in objective support,subjective support and positive emotion.2.There are specialty differences in terms of objective support,subjective support,total grade of social support,life satisfaction,positive emotion and general well-being.Students of art score higher than those of science.3.There are grade differences in general well-being;students in grade 3 score highest.4.Regression analysis shows that different aspects of SWB are influenced by different aspects of social support.As to the different aspects of social support,students' abilities to make predictions differ when SWB and other indexes are to be predicted.