This longitudinal study was designed to find out the relationships between goal pursuit, subjective well-being (SWB), and self-efficacy (SE) among 123 Chinese college students who take national graduate entrance examination by structural equation model. The longitudinal model of personal goal, SE, and SWB indicated that positive correlations were found between personal goal and SWB from Wave 1 to Wave 3, but the correlations became negative between Wave 1 personal goal and Wave 2 SWB; personal goal was positively correlated with SE from Wave 1 ...
