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Happiness has captured, and continues to capture, the interest of so many people.Although all cultures seem to value happiness, there are variations across cultures in how subjective well-being is defined.The current study attempted to measure how self-esteem, social support, spirituality and subjective well-being were related to each other in Indian and Chinese college students.A total of 717 undergraduate students, 387 Indian and 330 Chinese took part in the study.Correlation coefficients results showed pirituality and self-esteem were more strongly correlated for Indians, while self-esteem and positive affect were found to be more strongly correlated for Chinese; no significant correlations were found between social support (N) and satisfaction with life, social support (N) and negative affect, and social support (S) and positive affect for Indians. Results of analysis of variance showed significant mean difference between the two groups in the measured variables.The results of analysis of variance also demonstrated significant interactions between country and gender for positive affect, negative affect, social support and self-esteem.Further, the results also showed that female participants scored high in all the variables except for negative affect when compared with male participants.In addition, results of step-wise regression showed spirituality and self-esteem as predictors of well-being for Indian participants, while self-esteem, social support and spirituality predicted well-being for Chinese participants.