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Research On The Effect Of Social Support, Self-efficacy And Attribution Styles On Junior College Student's Coping Styles

Posted on:2011-03-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332967368Subject:Applied Psychology
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Coping as an intermediary factor of pressure and health plays an important role in maintaining physical and mental health of the individual. Coyne and some professors pointed out that how to deal with pressure is more significant to teenagers than how to adjust, keep health and develop. Junior college students as a special group are in the bottom of higher college education, suffer greater pressure on their study, the life and the employment. Therefore, paying attention to their ways to deal with the pressure and trying to carry on the effective guidance and intervention are very significant to their mental health growth. Overview of past research can find that scholars from all aspects of resources explored the influence of coping styles and obtained a certain result. But the research of relating several coping resource is short. This study selected junior college student as the research object, discussed the affecting factors of coping from the responses of environmental resources and mental resources and broke the previous studies from one single aspect of coping styles. This not only accord with the objective reality, the individual to explore the relationship between various coping resources and interaction, and enrich the stress and coping research theory, helps to reveal the psychological pressure.This study selected 500 college students of Zhengzhou city, using Social Support Scale, General Self-efficacy Scale (GSES), Attribution Style Scale (MMCS) and Coping Styles Questionnaire to investigate the correlation of college students'coping styles, social support, self-efficacy and attribution styles. Conclusion:(1) The using of various coping styles are in this order:to solve the problem, to ask for help, fantasy, rationalization, retreats, and remorse. One of the most widely used ways is to solve the problem, the second is to ask for help, and the least used way is the remorse.(2) Coping styles exist differences because of gender, grade, scores in entrance exam and the positions in class.(3) General self-efficacy differs in sex, family finances.(4) Attribution styles differs in gender, grade.(5) Social support differs in gender, grade and position.(6) Different social support levels in coping styles exist significant differences in six factors.(7) Different self-efficacy levels exist differences in solving the problem, self-accusation and asking for help.(8) College students'social support, self-efficacy and attribution style have a close relation to coping styles, and have prediction functions on different coping styles, and external atttibution in study is a very important prediction factor to coping styles.
Keywords/Search Tags:Junior college students, Social Support, Attribution Style, Self-efficacy, Coping Style
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