ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 unravels the contextual effects of factors at regional and college levels on personal well-being, given the effects of personal factors. There were ten regions, eight regions in Mainland China, its special administrative region, and Taiwan, and 52 colleges within the regions. Each contextual factor was the average of the personal factor in the context. The most crucial finding was the negative effects of contextual hedonic well-being and existential well-being on personal existential and hedonic well-being, respectively. This contradicts the contributions of contextual hedonic and existential well-being to their respective personal well-being. The contradiction is not due to crowding, as each contextual factor showed its effect separately. Among other regional factors, regional friendship value displayed a weak effect on personal perceptual well-being. Alternatively, college gratitude forgiveness, calmness, affiliative humor, just world belief, creativity, friendship value, and extracurricular activity value manifested weak contributions to personal perceptual well-being.
