Migrant Children’s Explicit/implicit Resilience And Coping Ways And Their Relationship

Migrant children are a double weak group during China’s development of urbanization. To care for and investigate them is of great value in both theory and practice.Resilience is an individual’s abilities and characters with their dynamic interaction to quickly recover from and successfully copy with stress and adversity. Coping way is an individual’s style of cognition and behavior adopted to deal with a stressful life incident.Resilience and coping way play an important role in whether a migrant child can well adapt to the city life, keep physical and mental health and improve the life quality. This dissertation investigates into migrant children’s resilience and coping ways and their relationship by qualitative, questionnaire, experiment and intervention methods, with the expectation to provide theoretical foundation and practical experience for the improvement of migrant children’s resilience and coping ways.With a qualitative research method, study 1 inquires into excellent and backward migrant children’s resilience characteristics, builds their models and compares their similarities and differences. Study 1 qualitatively investigates into frustration types faced by excellent and backward migrant children and levels of their coping ways for particular frustration situations and compares their similarities and differences. The results show that excellent migrant children have more resilience characteristics than their backward classmates and adopt more positive coping ways for frustration.Study 2 surveys with questionnaires explicit resilience and explicit coping ways of migrant children with high and low resilience and their relationship. It finds that migrant children with high and low resilience respectively remain middle to upper level and middle level at explicit resilience, with a significantly highest score at interpersonal harmony in personal ability and in social support a significantly highest score at friends’ support but a significantly lowest score at family support. Migrant children’s explicit coping ways are at middle level, with positive coping ways being significantly higher than negative ones. The group with low explicit resilience explicit resilience and explicit positive coping ways havea significantly positive correlation.Study 3 puts forward the concepts of implicit resilience and implicit coping ways,tests migrant children’s implicit resilience and implicit coping ways with an implicit association experiment and explores their relationship. Together with the results from the questionnaires, the relations between explicit and implicit resilience and between explicit and implicit coping ways are discussed. The findings in the research of implicit resilience show that the group with high explicit resilience are more likely to have resilience implicitly than the group with low explicit resilience. The findings in the research of implicit coping ways show that the group with high or low explicit coping ways have no significant effect of implicit resilience.In conclusion, the present study qualitatively investigates into excellent and backward migrant children’s resilience characteristics, their forming process and coping ways. The questionnaires survey explicit resilience levels of high and low resilience groups, migrant children’s levels of coping ways and their relationship. The experiment study puts forward the concepts of implicit resilience and implicit coping ways, explores conditions of explicit/implicit resilience and explicit/implicit coping ways and their relationship. These studies progress in a row to reveal that resilience determines coping ways and that the selection of coping ways and learning form and influence resilience, which expands and deepens their research.