The Impact of Social Support on Employees’ Subjective Well Being: The Mediating Role of Optimism

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10.2991/aebmr.k.210319.052How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Social support, Optimism, Subjective well-being

Abstract

In this paper makes an empirical study on the relationship between social support and employee well-being, as well as the mediating role of optimism in psychological capital between social support and subjective well-being. Taking 311 employees from different industries in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone as the empirical research object, the research hypotheses are as follows: (1) Social support has a positive correlation with subjective well-being; (2) social support has a significant positive correlation with optimism; (3) optimism has a significant positive correlation with subjective well-being; (4) optimism plays a mediating role in the relationship between social support and subjective well-being, that is, social support can affect employees’ subjective well-being through optimism. The results are of great significance to the theory and practice of social support, optimism and subjective well-being.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hui-wen Bai
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/22
TI  - The Impact of Social Support on Employees’ Subjective Well Being: The Mediating Role of Optimism
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Financial Innovation and Economic Development (ICFIED 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 286
EP  - 291
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.210319.052
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.210319.052
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