Subjective well-being (SWB) has been an intensely studied domain of
psychology, predominantly in the field of positive psychology. Due to the
nature of teaching as an intellectually, physically and emotionally
demanding profession, the last few decades have also witnessed a growing
interest in teachers? SWB. The pres?ent study investigated pre-service
teachers? (PTs) SWB and explored its relationship to teaching efficacy
beliefs and occupational anxiety. A total of 261 PTs enrolled in English
Language Teaching departments of five different universities in Turkey
participated in the study. Data came from the scales of SWB, teachers?
self-efficacy beliefs and occupational anxiety. The findings indicated that
PTs had a high level of perceived SWB; female PTs had a significantly higher
level of SWB than male ones; PTs? academic year and the type of university
they were enrolled in had no signif?icant relationship with their SWB; and
both self-efficacy beliefs and occupational anxiety served as significant
predictors of PTs? SWB, together explaining 16.2% of the variance in their
scores.