AUTHOR=Wu Jun , Xie Mei , Lai Yao , Mao Yanhui , Harmat Laszlo 

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

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.743906

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.743906

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=The present study investigated a conceptual model by testing university students’ flow experience and subjective well-being during COVID-19 via considering their underlying mechanisms of academic self-efficacy and self-esteem. A total of 1109 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 modelling 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 Chinese university students’ subjective well-being, and how such a relation can be supported by suggested mediating roles academic self-efficacy and self-esteem played.