The Relationship between Social Demands Satisfaction and Subjective Well-being of High School Students:The Mediating Effect of Prosocial Behavioral Tendency and The Moderating Effect of Empathy
Subjective well-being is an important part of high school students'mental health.Former studies focused on the role of fam-ily and school in the subjective well-being of high school students and neglected the impact of society.Although high school students themselves have not stepped into society,they are still participants in social activities who can obtain social information through various means to produce their views,attitudes,and demands for society.Therefore,from the social perspective,855 students from the first to the third year of a high school in Lvliang City were surveyed to investigate the relation between high school students'social demands satis-faction and their subjective well-being and to verify the mediating role of prosocial behavior tendency and the moderating role of empa-thy in this relationship.The results show that:(1)High school students'social demands satisfaction can positively predict their subjec-tive well-being.(2)Prosocial behavior tendency plays a partially positive mediating role in social demands satisfaction and subjective well-being.The more students felt their demands had been met,the more they were willing to engage in prosocial behaviors and then came higher subjective well-being.(3)Empathy moderates the front and back paths of the mediation model above.For individuals with low empathy,social demands satisfaction has a stronger predictive effect on their prosocial behavior tendency compare to those with high empathy.Conversely,for individuals with high empathy,their prosocial behavior tendency has a stronger predictive effect on their sub-jective well-being.
social demands satisfactionsubjective well-beingprosocial behavior tendencyempathy
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