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Well-being is an important subject that has been investigated in recent years. Moreover, recent studies pointed out the relationship between culture and well being. The purpose of the current investigation was to examine the relationships between self construals, authenticity, and subjective well-being. Participants were 248 university students between the age of 18-25. Of this participants, 64 were males (26%) and 184 were females (74%). Participants completed a questionnaire that included measures of self construals, authenticity, and subjective well-being. Results indicated that direct and indirect effects existed in the relationships between self construals, authenticity, and subjective well-being. Although, there were no significant direct relationships between autonomous self-construal, related self-construal and subjective well-being, autonomous self-construal associated with subjective well-being through authenticity. Autonomous-related self construal both directly and indirectly associated with authenticity and subjective well-being. In addition to direct and indirect effects, results of the mediation analysis indicated that authenticity mediates the relationships between autonomous self-construal, aoutonomous-related self-construal and subjective well-being. This showed that autonomous and aoutonomous-related self-construalsare associated with subjective well-being through authenticity. Together, self-construals and authenticity explained 28% of the variance in subjective well-being. Current study documented not only the extent to which self-construal was associated with authenticity, but also how strongly authenticity was associated with subjective well-being. Findings are discussed in terms of the self determination theory and cultural change. In addition, findings of the current study inform the development of intervention programs for counselors aimed at improving well-being of university students.

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