Exploring the relationship between discrimination perceptions and subjective well-being among college students with disabilities and the chain-mediated effects of psychological resilience and positive coping styles. Questionnaires were administered to 528 college students with disabilities using the Discrimination Perceptions Scale, Index of Well-Being Scale, Psychological Resilience Scale, and Simple Coping Styles Scale. SPSS 24.0 and Amos 26.0 were used to analyze chained mediation effects and construct structural equation modeling tests. ①Discrimination perception was significantly negatively correlated with subjective well-being (
r
= -0.294,
p
< 0.01), psychological resilience(
r
= -0.427,
p
< 0.01) and all 3 of its dimensions, and positive coping styles (
r
= -0.328,
p
<0.01); subjective well-being was significantly positively correlated with psychological resilience (
r
= 0.334,
p
< 0.01) and all 3 of its dimensions, and positive coping styles (
r
= 0.363,
p
<0.01); and positive coping styles was significantly positively correlated with psychological resilience(
r
= 0.433,
p
< 0.01) and all 3 of its dimensions.② The direct effect of discrimination perceptions on college students with disabilities was significant, and the mediating effect value was-0.191.③Psychological resilience and positive coping styles not only play a significant separate mediating role between discrimination perceptions and subjective well-being of college students with disabilities, with mediation effect values of -0.138 (49.11%) and − 0.087 (30.96%), respectively but also play a significant chain mediating role between discrimination perceptions and subjective well-being, with an effect value of -0.056 (19.93%). Discrimination perceptions can directly affect the subjective well-being of college students with disabilities, and can also indirectly affect the subjective well-being of college students with disabilities through the separate and chain-mediated effects of psychological resilience and positive coping styles.
