Learn The Feeling Of Success

This project, the study of feelings of academic success (FOAS), resulted from the theoretical and practical study of Success Education and might be pioneering and innovative. Up to now, there have been no studies on FOAS. The purposes of this study were to develop Feelings of Academic Success Scale (FOASS), to explore the psychological mechanisms of FOAS, and to provide some scientific psychological theories and practical means to carry out Success Education. This dissertation was divided into eight chapters.Chapter One: Summarization. This chapter mainly introduced the background and theoretical and practical significance of the study, defined the primary concepts, such as feeling of academic success, and summed up the main purposes and methods.Chapter Two: Literature Review. This chapter reviewed several internal and external studies about success or feelings of success and generalized theories and studies that relate to FOAS, such as, level of aspiration, goal setting, reinforcement, attribution and achievement goal theories. Based on the relative theories, the author primarily put forward the following hypotheses: (1) level of aspiration has direct influence on FOAS; (2) situation directly affects FOAS; (3) reinforcement directly affects FOAS; (4) attribution directly affects FOAS; (5) positive situations have indirect influence on FOAS through level of aspiration and attribution.Chapter Three: On Scale for Feelings of Academic Success. Based on theoretical studies, interviews and open questionnaires, the author developed a scale for feelings of academic success. The result showed: the scale had high reliability and validity, and it could be used as an effective tool to assess FOAS of middle school students; exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis showed the sub-scales of FOASS could involve four factors: positive feelings from study itself, positivefeelings concerned with other people, feelings of satisfaction and feelings of academic self-efficacy.Chapter Four: Relationship between FOAS and personality, self-esteem, psychological health and positive behavior. In this section the author studied the correlations of feelings of academic success with personality, self-esteem, psychological heath and positive behavior and analyzed the importance of FOAS. The characteristics of students with different FOAS were analyzed and FOAS of students of different gender and grade were compared. The results revealed: there were close relation between FOAS and personality, self-esteem, psychological health and positive behavior; the person with high FOAS exhibited extroversion with stable emotion and little anxiety, and they were hardly bigoted or rough, with high self-esteem, little psychological symptoms, positive behavior, while the person with low FOAS showed the contrary characteristics; there were no significant differences in grade on FOAS, but there were significant difference between males and females, and females reported significantly higher FOAS.Chapter Five: Antecedents of FOAS. Based on theoretical studies, this chapter studied the antecedents of FOAS, such as situations, level of aspiration and attribution, and tried to construct a model with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). SEM revealed: positive classroom setting, positive home surroundings, right level of aspiration and sound attribution directly affected FOAS, and positive classroom setting and home environment indirectly affected FOAS from level of aspiration and attribution.Chapter Six: How to improve FOAS? On the basis of the hypotheses in Chapter Two and the consequence of FOAS antecedents studies in Chapter Five, this chapter tried to resolve the practical problem of improving FOAS by studying the followingthree approaches: level of aspiration instruction, attributional training and classroom goals orientation. Study One revealed that after students were advised to set appropriate level of aspiration, the gap between aspiration and actual performance becomes small and FOAS was improved and behavior became more p...