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Researches On Characteristics Of Self-confidence Of University Students

Posted on:2003-08-26Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L P CheFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360065457010Subject:Basic Psychology
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Self-confidence is an important factor in individual personality structure, it can prompt personal mental activity and mental development However, since the first time when Maslow put forward the notion of self-confidence in 1943, there have been very few researches specially and systematically devoted to the exploration of self-confidence and not yet formed the specialized domain that study of self-confidence in domestic or international up to now. This research program was the first attempt to systematically study the self-confidence. Taking the perspective of psychology of personality and treating self-confidence in our own cultural background, in view of systematic structure assumption, this research program studied the self-confident characteristics of university students specially and systematically with diversified means. Centered around different research aspects, this whole dissertation was divided into eight parts.Part One: introduction. Through the discussion of the study tendency based on culture, the research problems and the significance of this study were brought forward. The existing literature on theoretical and empirical research of self-confidence was reviewed, whereby the whole research plan and framework of this research program were established and outlined.Part Two: Study on the structural dimensions of self-confidence of university students. By investigating university students using open-ended questionnaire and interviewing, theoretical and empirical literatures were collected. On this basis, the essential and structural dimensions of self-confidence were explored, and the hierarchical structure model of self-confidence of university students was built up.Part Three: Empirical study on the systematic structure of self-confidence of university students. The researcher investigated 389 undergraduates using the self-confidence questionnaire for pretest, then explored and verified the structural model and dimensions of self-confidence by means of factor analysis. The conclusion is so such: the structural model of self-confidence of university students consisted of 4 dimensions and 13 factors, namely the whole self-confidence (synthesized confirmation, total affirmation, negative self), school self-confidence (handling and creation, profession confidence, confidence of foreign language), social self-confidence (familymembers and teacher, classmates and others) and physical self-confidence (physical activity, health quality, action and figure, appearance and facial expression, looks and stature); The questionnaire of self-confidence has good reliability and validity.Part Four: Study on the developmental and correlative tendencies of university students' self-confidence. This part consisted of 5 researches (research 4-8). Research 4 investigated 931 university students, indicated the differences and developmental variety trend, characteristics of self-confidence of university students on the primary measures, such as sex, grade and school type. Research 5 studied the relations of university students' self-confidence with achievement motivation and school scores by means of canonical analysis, linear regression, and path analysis. It found that the relations of university students' self-confidence and achievement motivation is remarkable, the notable correlation only found for a few dimensions of self-confidence with students' school scores, and the correlation of achievement motivation and students' school scores was not evident Research 6 examined the relation of type A personality and self-confidence by using of diversified study means. The results showed: There is evident correlation between individual personality characteristics and the whole self-confidence, but its correlation with other 3 dimensions of self-confidence did not reach statistical level. Research 7 explored the correlation between university students' serf-confidence and locus of control: the higher scores they got in the control scale, the little internal tendency they had, and their self-confident degree is mor...
Keywords/Search Tags:self-confidence, personality characteristic, systemic structure, hierarchical model, the whole self-confidence, school self-confidence, social self-confidence, physical self-confidence, and self-confident degree
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