Flow as a Key Predictor of Subjective Well-Being Among Chinese University Students: A Chain Mediating Model.

Wu J, Xie M, Lai Y, Mao Y, Harmat L

Front Psychol 12 (-) 743906 [2021-11-16; online 2021-11-16]

The present study investigated a conceptual model by testing flow experience and subjective well-being of university students during Coronavirus Diseas-19 (COVID-19) via considering their underlying mechanisms of academic self-efficacy and self-esteem. A total of 1,109 Chinese university students completed a questionnaire containing scales of subjective well-being, flow, academic self-efficacy, and self-esteem. Results yielded from the structural equation modeling analysis indicated a significant and positive association between flow experience and subjective well-being, and such an association was sequentially mediated by academic self-efficacy and self-esteem. Findings also provided empirical evidence for the proposed model highlighting the significant role of flow experience at the higher educational context in predicting subjective well-being of Chinese university students, and how such a relation can be supported by suggested mediating roles academic self-efficacy and self-esteem played.

Category: Public Health

Type: Journal article

PubMed 34867624

DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.743906

Crossref 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.743906

pmc: PMC8636857


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