| In this paper, we will put forward the concept and theory of regret orientation.through overviewing of previous studies, and produced the questionaire of regret orientation. On the basis of the consolidated domestic, through interviews, questionnaires and other forms of open-carry out investigations, gathering information,and preparing a questionnaire for adults regret orientation. through survey of 343 people, to determine four features of adult regret orientation are volition characteristics, emotional characteristics, cognitive characteristics and characteristics of attitudes on the real life. And discusses the relationship between adult regret orientation maximization, tendency to adjust and the well-being.Through demographic analysis,we found that:(1) There are significant difference in regret orientation between different gender groups and between different professional groups.(2)There is little different in regret emotion between different age groups.(3) maximization, adjust orientation, overall happiness, sex, major have good predictive power on adults regret orientation.and in which the predictive power maximization is best. |