Cognitive Styles And Coping Style, Depression, Subjective Happiness Relationship

Cognitive style refers to the method which the individual used frequently in cognitive process; it is a concentrated expression of the individual's thought, thinking mode, basic faith and so on. Coping styles refers to the method, strategies or means which people used in order to deal with the internal and external environmental requirements, as well as the correlative emotional problems. Both of them are the important indicators of the university students social adaptation and social skills development, and they are very important to the individual's psychological growth regulation. Study on university students'cognitive style, coping style, depression and well-being and their relationship, may help the university students to understand themselves well, and prevent or reduce depression as well as improve their psychological health by taking reasonable and effective coping strategies.Therefore we introduced the foreign Cognitions Questionnaire (Fennell and Campbell, 1984) and revised it. 700 university students are selected as participants for the test of the revised Cognitions Questionnaire, Coping Style Questionnaire, Index of Well-being Questionnaire (Campbell, 1976) and Beck Depression Inventory, (Beck, 1967). The purpose of this research was to study on the relationship between cognitive style, coping style, depression and well-being; we utilized SPSS 11.5 to analyse the data, following conclusions was found:1. The revised Chinese Version of the Cognitions Questionnaire (CQ) has good reliability and validity, which can be applied in research for cognitive style of university students.2. At the cognition style aspect, the higher depressed cognition level the one has, the more possibility to use the negative coping style when the one encounters problem, and the level of depression will be higher; while the lower depressed cognition level the one has, the more possibility to use the positive coping style when the one encounters problem, and the level of well-being will be higher.3. At the coping style aspect, the one who prefers positive coping style has higher level of well-being; while the one who prefers negative coping style has higher level of depression.4. Cognitive style can predict positive and negative coping style in some degree.5. Cognitive style, positive coping style and negative coping style can predict depression in some degree; thereinto, the cognitive style has the best predictive ability. Cognitive style, positive coping style and negative coping style can predict well-being in some degree;thereinto, the positive coping style has the best predictive ability.