Upcoming Release From Prison Frustration Of Male Inmates Respond To Experimental Study Of Self-monitoring Training

Once appeared, Self-monitoring has gained much attention in the field of psychology. Although it was comparatively late in our country to have it studied, there still has been a lot of production about the theory and practice on it, especially since the last ten years. But it largely focused on the relationship between the abilities of self-monitoring for learning and academic performances, and most researches were about students. On the other hand, articles of studying frustration coping were infrequent, and there was nearly no article of studying criminal's self-monitoring of frustration coping. But it is known that the situation of criminal's mental health is bad, so it is quite an important and urgent task to study their mental health situation and ways of treating, and to strengthen the researches of frustration, especially the researches of self-monitoring of frustration coping. Such researches plays an important role to criminal themselves, to their families and to the whole society, and it can offer prison staff necessary psychology bases and support for educating and rebuilding criminals .Based on the previous researches, this study used think aloud training mode, and other strategies, focusing on improving male criminals' ability of self-monitoring of frustration coping to gain its aim , which will improve their mental health and make them accommodate life successfully. This study included several parts: developing male criminals' self-monitoring of frustration coping; analyzing male criminals' characteristics about self-monitoring ability; analyzing the correlation between frustration coping and self-monitoring; and conducting experiments about male criminals'self-monitoring ability in frustration coping. The results indicated that:(1)The"Male criminals'Self-monitoring of Frustration Coping Questionnaire"has reliability and validity that can be accepted. A first-order model of male criminals'self-monitoring of frustration coping , named knowledge of self-monitoring, consists 2 factors: knowledge, strategy. A second-order model of male criminals'self-monitoring of frustration coping , named regulating of self-monitoring , consists 5 factors: noticing to identification, evaluating, planning, examining and summarizing, experiencing. And a criterion of Shanghai is finished.(2)There are some male criminals' characteristics about self-monitoring ability:The older a criminal is, has good education, has a good job , is a economy criminal , his term of imprisonment long enough, or can use active mode to settle frustration, the more he will be apt to have high level self-monitoring of frustration coping. But the nearer the term comes to its end, the more his level of self-monitoring will be low.(3) There exists significant positive correlation between active mode of coping frustration(such as settling question and appealing)and self-monitoring in the whole; but the negative mode of coping frustration ( such as self-abusing, fancying, retreating, and rationalization, which is a adiaphorous coping frustration)hasn't any correlation with self-monitoring.(4)Male crimimals' frustration coping method has some change after training, witch was retreating. So on passive coping method changed to settling question and appealing, and so on positive coping method; but the difference wasn't significant, so did anxiety.(5) The training of self-monitoring of frustration coping can partly improve male crimimals' self-monitoring to frustration coping ability.