Adult Education Androgyny, And Its Relationship With Coping Style, Mental Health Research

This study measures the relationship among Androgyny and Coping Styles and Mental Health of 480 part-time adult students with the aid of Chinese Sex Role Inventory, Coping Style Questionnaires and Self-rating Symptom Scale.The result shows that:(1)The distribution of part-time adult students'gender role types is not balanced and its difference is remarkable. The distribution of androgyny and undifferentiation is evidently more than the distribution of masculinity and femininity. That is to say, the main gender types of part-time adult student's are androgyny and undifferentiation, while the students who possess masculinity or femininity are relatively little. There is no significant difference in the distribution of four gender types between male and female. The distribution of the four gender types has cross-grade coherence, and the distribution of the four gender types has cross-region coherence.(2)There is significant difference in problem-solving, self-accusation and seek-helping of coping style among four types of gender roles, and there also exists significant difference in the score of interpersonal sensitivity.(3)Compared with the other three types of gender roles, Part-time adult students who possess androgyny personality used more frequently the method of problem-solving which is more mature and positive.(4)Androgyny can prognosticate negatively the score of interpersonal sensitivity, that is to say, androgyny contributes to establishing good relationships with others.(5)Problem-solving, which is a more mature coping style, is the mediator between androgyny and interpersonal sensitivity, that is to say, establishing a harmonious relationship for part-time adult student's who possess androgyny personality have been affected by problem-solving.