The Emotional Intelligence’s Influences on Self-efficacy and Subjective Well-Being of Taiyuan College Students, Shanxi Province, China

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At present, college students often encounter a lot of emotional distress, such as anxiety, depression, and other bad emotions, which directly affect students’ mental health, and thus affect their cognition and experience of subjective well-being. The research objective is to examine the relationship of emotional intelligence, self-efficacy, and subjective well-being of college students. The research population was the students of colleges and universities in Shanxi Province, China. The samples are 409 college students from the North University of China, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, and Taiyuan Institute of Technology. Through literature review, combined with emotional intelligence and emotional affect theory, self-efficacy theory, and subjective well-being theory, a structural equation model of the impact of emotional intelligence on subjective well-being is proposed. The data analysis results show that emotional intelligence positively impacts subjective well- being, and self-efficacy partially mediates between emotional management and subjective well-being. Strategies to improve college students’ emotional intelligence proposed from the three aspects of society, university, and individual help college students enhance their ability to understand their own emotions and others’ emotions, improve their emotional intelligence to control their own emotions, and successfully cope with and solve various emotional issues in their subjective well-being. We provide these resources to improve subjective well-being, which may help colleges and universities design targeted interventions to promote college students’ subjective well-being.