Frontiers in Psychology (Nov 2021)

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

  • Jun Wu,
  • Mei Xie,
  • Yao Lai,
  • Yanhui Mao,
  • Yanhui Mao,
  • Laszlo Harmat

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.743906
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12

Abstract

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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.

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