ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023
Social trust and subjective well-being of first-generation college students in China: the multiple mediation effects of self-compassion and social empathy.
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- Depression and general self-efficacy among first-generation college students in China: a longitudinal analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- The belief in a just world and empathy in nursing students: the role of self-esteem.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- The effects of physical exercise on adolescents' antisocial behavior: the chain-mediated effects of good peer relationships and subjective wellbeing.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Fear of Death, Concept of a Good Death and Self-Compassion Among University Students in Portugal: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Teacher-student empathic relationship shaping: an elimination mechanism for psychological segmentations in entrepreneurship education.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- What predicts mental health profiles in first-generation college freshmen?: the role of proactive personality and university environment.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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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 the effect of general social trust, including trust in people, on subjective well-being. The findings that self-compassion and social empathy mediated the relationship between trusting attitudes toward society, especially people, and subjective well-being expand the literature on social trust and the mechanism of social trust on subjective well-being. The results also highlight the significance of improving mental health education and intervention among first-generation college students in China.
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