Online communication and subjective well-being in Chinese college students: The mediating role of shyness and social self-efficacy

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• 作者：Caina Li ; Xinxin Shi ; ^{chinali7371@163.com" class="auth_mail} ; Jianning Dang
• 关键词：Online communication ; Psychological need ; Shyness ; Social self-efficacy ; Subjective well-being
• 刊名：Computers in Human Behavior
• 出版年：May, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：34
• 期：Complete
• 页码：89-95
• 全文大小：361 K

文摘

The present study attempts to examine the relationship between online communication and subjective well-being from the perspective of psychological need satisfaction, as well as the mediating role of shyness and social self-efficacy among Chinese college students. 574 college students with average age of 20 were asked to complete Psychological Need for Online Communication Scale, Shyness Scale, Social Self-efficacy Scale and Subjective Well-being Scale. SEM evidence supports the stimulation hypothesis, namely, the psychological needs satisfied by online communication can promote a person鈥檚 social self-efficacy and experience a higher evaluation of subjective well-being. Meanwhile, the psychological needs satisfied by online communication can also influence individuals鈥?status of shyness, which will decrease their social self-efficacy and lead to a lower subjective well-being. Furthermore, Chinese female college students obtain less social self-efficacy from the satisfaction of psychological needs through online communication than their male counterparts did, and resulted in less subjective well-being. The results are discussed in terms of psychological needs theory.