Abstract
The present study examined three fundamental components contributing to life satisfaction among Chinese college students − who you are, how you conceive of yourself, and how you understand the world in which you function. To account for life satisfaction beyond self‐esteem, we used two comprehensive measures of personality and social beliefs that have recently established their cross‐cultural applicability: the Cross‐Cultural Personality Assessment Inventory and the Social Axioms Survey. It was found that the personality variables tapping interpersonal relationship and social axioms tapping perceptions of social contexts were significantly related to life satisfaction over and above its relationship to self‐esteem. These and other constructs were discussed as emic and possibly pancultural contributors to subjective well‐being.
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