To explore the relationship between the social support and hope of college students, as well as the multiple mediating effects of self-esteem and self-efficacy in the effect of social support. 756 college students were tested with Snyder' s Adult Dispositional Hope Scale (ADHS) , Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS) , Self-Esteem Scale (SES) and General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES). The results indicated that: (1) Subjective social support was a significant predictor of college students' hope, while objective social support and utiliza...