Dept. of Nursing, Namseoul University, 91 Daehakro, Seonghwan-eup, Seobuk-gu, Chonan, South Korea
*Corresponding Author: Jung-Hyun Choi, Professor, Department of Nursing, Namseoul University, Korea, Email: jhc@nsu.ac.kr
Online published on 7 December, 2018.
This study aimed to examine the structural relationships of positive caring, negative feeling, and self-esteem that affect life satisfaction of college students in Korea.
This study used data of the seventh KCYSPS (Korean Children and Youth Panel Survey) of 2016. The participants were college 1st year students. The number of participants was 1881 students.
The participants in this study were 954 females (50.7%) and 927 males (49.3%). The mean age was 19.89 years old. Most participants were included in the middle class of socioeconomic status (63.0%). The participants who visited foreign countries were 322 persons (17.1%). The participants who experienced gambling were 29 persons (1.9%). This study showed positive caring, negative feeling, and self-esteem were prominent variables to predict life satisfaction of college students. Self-esteem was the most influential factor in life satisfaction of college students rather than positive caring and negative feeling. Also, the study showed the mediating effect of self-esteem in the relationship between positive caring and life satisfaction of college students. And it also showed that negative feeling indirectly influenced life satisfaction of college students via self-resilience.
These findings imply that positive caring, negative feeling and self-esteem are important variables of life satisfaction and can be used as important intervention factors which increase life satisfaction among college students.
Life satisfaction, self-esteem, positive caring, negative feeling, students, Korea
