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The Relationship between Emotional Expression and Subjective Well-being of Undergraduates:
The Moderator of Willingness Expression

  

  1. (Institute of Ethnic Education, Chuxiong Normal University, Chuxiong, Yunnan 675000, China)
  • Received:2015-12-28 Online:2016-03-15 Published:2016-03-15

Abstract:

With both experimental group and control group in the pretest and post-test, this paper investigates the relationship
between emotional expression and well- being of undergraduates with 176 students as convenience samples. Those samples were
randomly divided into three groups with two experimental groups completing the "positive diary homework" and "negative diary
homework" while the control group completing "ordinary diary homework". The results showed that: ① positive emotion expression
significantly increased the sense of happiness and negative emotional expression decreased the sense of happiness, while the control
group did not change; ② emotional expression can significantly predict well-being, individual willingness expression has a significant
moderating effect. Obviously, the more positive willingness expression of the individual's daily emotional expression, then the higher
the sense of happiness.

Key words: emotional expression, happiness, willingness expression

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