Social trust and subjective well-being of first-generation college students in China: the multiple mediation effects of self-compassion and social empathy.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have found that subjective well-being is associated with social trust, self-compassion, and social empathy. Based on online fieldwork with 662 first-generation college students (54.7% male) in China, this study aimed to investigate the serial mediation effects of self-compassion and social empathy on the relationship between social trust and subjective well-being. The results showed that subjective well-being was significantly positively correlated with social trust, trust in people, self-compassion, and social empathy. Both self-compassion and social empathy partially mediated the relationship between social trust and subjective well-being, and fully mediated the association between trust in people and subjective well-being. We used a serial mediation model to estimate th

SUBMITTER: Wang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10164941 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature