THE CURRENT SITUATION OF COLLEGE STUDENTS' WELL-BEING
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College student, ; Well-being, Well-being level, Positive Psychologyบทคัดย่อ
This article aimed to study 1)To make an adaptation to form a questionnaire on college students' well-being;2)To investigate the level of college students' well-being in China;3)To investigate the characteristics and strategies for the improvement of college students' well-being.The research was conducted in the form of literature method, informal conversational interviews and questionnaires, and the research sample was Chinese college students who were selected by random sampling. The questionnaire was adapted by literature method and informal conversational interview method in the first stage, and after the questionnaire survey was conducted on 761 college students, the data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and content analysis. The research results were found as follows:1) The adaptation of the questionnaire of college students' well-being is formed 2)The level of college students' well-being is in the middle and the overall feelings are in the middle level; it is summarized that college students' well-being is mainly composed of five components: positive feeling , self-worth, interpersonal harmony, life The 5 components of college students' well-being are positive feeling, self-worth, interpersonal harmony, life satisfaction and achievement. 3) From the demographic factors, college students' well-being varies in various dimensions, with female higher than male in self-worth; science and engineering majors have higher well-being; and the mean value of the third-year college students is slightly higher in all dimensions. In terms of self-worth, life satisfaction, and achievement, the mean values of those who have lived in the city for a long time are higher than those in the village. Students who are currently serving or have served as student leaders have higher well-being. Only child is lower in positive feelings. There is some potential for improvement in the well-being of college students.
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