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The Relationship Among The Meaning Of Life Coping Style And Subjective Well Being Of College Students

Posted on:2017-03-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J CaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330488950870Subject:Applied Psychology
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College students are in an important development and transition period. Understand the meaning and value of life is important for contemporary college students to have a healthy life. Sense of meaning of life is individual's perception of the value of their own life, mainly contains four factors, such as life experience, life attitude, life goal and sense of self. The research results shows that, when dealing with the frustration and stress events in life, individuals with high sense of meaning in life shows a tendency to adopt positive coping style, and generally experiences higher level of well-being.On the basis of analysis literature, this study uses Purpose-in-life test, simple coping style questionnaire and general well-being scale to research 540 students' meaning of life and it's influence factors, these students are from Henan University, then uses SPSS software to analysis our data, the conclusions are as following:(1) The college students' overall meaning of life is worrying, 47% of the students' life goal and meaning is not clear, 29.4% of the students are in the state of life is meaningless and no purpose.(2) The total score of the sense of life is significantly different in different genders, and the girls' score are higher than boys.(3) There exists significant difference in the total score of life sense in different grades. Post hoc test shows that there exists significant differences between four and one, two, three grade,and three grade' score is lower most.(4) The sense of meaning of life and its dimensions is not reached statistically significant level on the only child, family location, professional category, family economic situation, the difference of family condition.(5) College students' sense of life can positively predict positive coping and subjective well-being.(6) Positive coping can positively predict subjective well-being.(7) The sense of life meaning is negatively correlated with negative coping.(8) Negative coping is negatively correlated with subjective well being.(9) Positive coping and negative coping can play a partial intermediary role in the relationship between life sense and subjective well being.
Keywords/Search Tags:college students, the meaning of life, coping style, subjective well being
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