High School Students Self-esteem, Coping With Anxiety Relationship

The study of anxiety has long been hot research, especially in the field of psychology, education and psychiatry. At present the whole society is paying high attention to the mental health of the middle school students and anxiety is the most popular emotion problem which influences the middle school students. In order to offer scientific theoretical basis and effective guiding practice for the psychological counseling and mental health education of middle school, we studied the characteristics of anxiety, self-esteem and coping style of the middle school students. Furthermore, the relation of the three concepts was proundly analyzed. Then one case was reported.Self-Rating Anxiety Scale draw up Zung, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory drawn up by Spielberger, Self-Esteem Scale drawn up by Rosenberg and Coping Style Questionnaire revised by Xiao jihua were used for assessment among 396 middle school students. The data was analyzed by SPSS 13.0 for windows.The main results are as following:1.Anxiety is investigated high rate in the middle school students. Grade 10 is high than other grades. State anxiety and trait anxiety level of middle school students is significantly higher than the national norm. There is significant difference among different grades of all the subjects'state anxiety and trait anxiety. Academic performance significantly impacts on the anxiety level of middle school students.2.Self-esteem of different grades of the middle school students is significantly different. Self-esteem of different academic performance of the middle school students is significantly different.3.The coping style of different grades of the middle school students is remarkably different. Furthermore, there are significant differences concerning problem-solving, self-blaming, withdrawal, rationalization. There is significant differcnce concerning rationlization with regard to gender and school type. There is significant difference concerning problem-solving and self-blaming with regard to academic performance.4.The scores of state anxiety,trait anxiety and self-rating anxiety have significant negative correlation with self-esteem of middle school students. Anxiety of middle school students has significant positive correlation with self-blaming, fantasy, withdrawal and rationalization. In contrast, it has significant negative correlation with problem-solving and help-seeking. Self-esteem of middle school students has significant positive correlation with problem-solving and help-seeking. However, self-esteem of middle school students has significant negative correlation with self-blaming, fantasy, withdrawal and rationalization.5.State anxiety and trait anxiety are predicted strongly by self-esteem and problem-solving, self-blaming. Trait anxiety is predicted by help-seeking. Middle school students with high anxiety have low self-esteem level and tend to use negative coping style.