ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 concludes with insights and implications derived from the study. The insights gained concern the homeostasis of well-being and moderation effects of Chinese characteristics. The homeostasis registers the negative effects of contextual well-being indicators on other well-being indicators at the personal level. This sets a brake on the growth or decline of well-being. The homeostasis also exposes the negative effects of study and religious value and just world belief. These negative effects show the unsustainability of well-being. Many of the positive and negative effects also varied with Chinese characteristics indicated by Mainland China location and dialecticism at the contextual level. For instance, the contributions of family value, friendship value, and forgiveness on well-being were substantially stronger in Mainland China than in other places. Regional dialecticism increased the contributions of extracurricular activity value, leisure activity value, future orientation, and others. Alternatively, college dialecticism enhanced the contributions of forgiveness, curiosity, family value, friendship value, and others. Despite these, the contextual Chinese characteristics occasionally tempered the effects of personal forgiveness, gratitude, dialecticism, aggressive humor, family value, and friendship value on personal well-being. These insights imply the contextual development of well-being with the deterministic mechanisms of the analytic-functionalist framework. That is, the development follows the indirect deterministic mechanisms of empowering, incentivizing, standardizing, and framing, and the vicarious determinism of sharing.
