FROM GRIT TO LIFE SATISFACTION OF COLLEGE STUDENTS: PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL AS A MEDIATOR

Abstract

This present conceptual paper intends to explore and investigate college students’ life satisfaction in Ji’nan, China. College students’ life satisfaction has emerged as one of the most prominent indices relating to health, and it remains a severe challenge to be measured for educational organizations due to its subjective characteristics. However, it may be tested by its predictors. The prior literature about the relationship between grit, psychological capital, and college students’ life satisfaction has been reviewed, through which the inconsistency between grit and life satisfaction has been revealed. Therefore, this paper tries to explain the relationship between college students’ life satisfaction and grit by the mediating effect of psychological capital, which may be a new conceptual model seldom conducted in previous studies, especially in Ji’nan.