The One Year Study Of Senior One Resilience And Its Influencing Factors

Senior school students, under heavy pressure of academic pressure and in the adolescence of unbalanced physiological and psychological development are subject to mental conflicts and turmoil. Resilience, a significant field of developmental psychology, has increasingly attracted unprecedented concern among psychologists.The study adopted a one-year comparative study of Senior One students’resilience level and its influencing factors, in which 288 Senior One students completed the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) and Self Description Questionnaire II (SDQ II) twice in September and June respectively.The results revealed that the high resilience level was found in Senior One students and their resilience marks showed no significant difference in the increasing tendency or between girls and boys but there existed a significant rising tendency in their toughness and optimism. In the first term girls scored significantly higher than boys in optimism while the difference disappeared in the second term. The high self-concept level was found in senior One students and their self-concept marks showed the tendency of decreasing. Gender differences were significantly revealed in their physical abilities and verbal abilities as well as in relationship with parents, with opposite gender, with boy scoring higher than girls in the physical ability, and lower in the rest three. Resilience had obvious positive correlation with self-concept; Same-Gender Relationships could help to promote the resilience of Senior One students. The results also indicated significant positive correlation between resilience, toughness and academic performance in mathematics, but no correlation with Chinese or English performance.