Loneliness and Subjective Happiness as Mediators of the Effects of Core Self-evaluations on Life Satisfaction Among Chin
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Loneliness and Subjective Happiness as Mediators of the Effects of Core Self-evaluations on Life Satisfaction Among Chinese College Students Xiaofei Yan • Jingkuan Su • Xia Zhu • Dan He
Accepted: 3 October 2012 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Abstract The primary goal of this study was to investigate the mediator effects of loneliness and subjective happiness on the relationship between core self-evaluations and life satisfaction in Chinese college students. A total of 301 participants were all students who were attending three different Chinese colleges in Nanchang, Xi’an and Yan’an. Data were collected by using the Core Self-evaluations Scale, UCLA Loneliness Scale, Subjective Happiness Scale and Satisfaction with Life Scale. Path revealed that subjective happiness fully mediated the relationship between core self-evaluations and life satisfaction. Furthermore, the association between core self-evaluations and life satisfaction was not mediated by loneliness and subjective happiness partially mediated the association between core self-evaluations and loneliness. The final model also showed a significant path from core self-evaluations through subjective happiness to life satisfaction and loneliness. Limitations of the study are considered and implications of the results for increasing individuals’ life satisfaction are discussed. Keywords
Loneliness Subjective happiness Core self-evaluations Life satisfaction
1 Introduction Life satisfaction could be defined as a global cognitive evaluation of an individual as the satisfaction with his or her own life as a whole (Diener et al. 2003; Lucas et al. 1996). It means a comparison process in which individuals assess the quality of their lives on the basis of their own self-imposed standard. Numerous studies have shown that life X. Yan (&) X. Zhu Department of Psychology, The Forth Military Medical University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China e-mail: [email protected] J. Su (&) Xijing Hospital, The Forth Military Medical University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China e-mail: [email protected] D. He Psychology College, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, People’s Republic of China
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satisfaction has been thought to be a importance indicator of quality life. It has been found to be correlated with a vast array of personal, psychological, social, interpersonal and intrapersonal outcomes (Proctor et al. 2009). One of the most important factors of life satisfaction is personality. Previous researches have shown that there was a significant association between personality and life satisfaction (Joshanloo and Afshari 2011; Baudin et al. 2011; Wu and Griffin 2012). For example, the extraversion and neuroticism were found to be the strongest predictors of life satisfaction in college students (Joshanloo and Afshari 2011) and a more precise facetbased assessment of personality significantly increased the prediction of satisfaction with life (Baudin et al. 2011). Core self-evaluations as a broad personality trait have been the foc
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