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A Research On The Implicit Theories Of Stress Coping Style Wisdom Of College Students

Posted on:2012-05-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X JinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155330332997600Subject:Applied Psychology
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College students generally face the pressure coming from study, employment, relationships, life, love relationships, economy, society, examination, family, living and learning environment, the future, ability, individuals (growth, appearance, self-confidence), health, competition and many other aspects. But the physical and mental development of young people during this period have not reached maturity completely, when facing these new situation and problems which are complicated and strange, if students did not respond in the effective way, they would not resolve the problem, even worse, they will suffer from serious mental disorders or mental illness. This domestic and international pressure responding wisdom study and research result in the following conclusion: there is inner wisdom structure when it comes to respond to pressure. Implicit theory of wisdom research is relevant to the opinion or standpoint about what is wisdom in the minds of common people, it is the exploring about the wisdom which constructs validity of social inquiry. Discussing wisdom should not be isolated from the actual occurrence and situation in everyday life, the wisdom research relying on the specific context is one innovation in the study.The study uses methodology framework of implicit research detecting the wisdom implicit theory dimensionality of the way college students in China deal with campus stress nowadays. Research is divided into three parts, the first part is the pre-survey, collecting description regarding to students'wisdom in coping stress and filtering them according to certain criteria for the subsequent study and further analysis. The second part is to take factor analysis to the wisdom description language, from the quantitative research exploring a more accurate model of the responding pressure wisdom construction. The third part is to use the variance analysis to analyze difference of difference aspects of college students'wisdom implicit theory in responding to pressure in different gender and age.Through pre-survey 32 descriptions about students'wisdom in responding to pressure were collected, descriptive statistical analysis showed that the average score of 32 items is greater than 5, which indicating that these intellectual behaviors and characteristics play a significant role in responding to stress.Factor analysis removes eight factors in multi-dimension which loads either too heavy or too little, then the last remaining 24 factors meet the conditions wisdom description and are divided into six dimensions via the exploratory factor analysis, finally according to the expert assessment method these six dimensions of wisdom are named, "positive mood and emotion type," "strong and stable personality trait," "rational way of thinking," "flexible problem solving ability," " a clear self-awareness "and" excellent interpersonal way". From the theoretical meaning and content of specific description of the six factors, student'wisdom in responding to pressure includes emotion, personality, intelligence, self-concept, interpersonal relationships and many other psychological dimensions, which is consistent to conclusion of the most former wisdom research, although intelligent is the foundation of wisdom, college students'wisdom in responding to pressure exceeds the concept of intelligence, wisdom involves the integration of cognition, emotion, will and other mental processes.According to the conclusions of the study, the final recommendation is that, for college students, the relatively universal cognitive and behavioral specific life wisdom summarized from excellent responding methods could be learned and promoted, psychology health education in university could be improved in the emotional management, self-awareness and other aspects in the future.
Keywords/Search Tags:Stress, Coping Style, Wisdom, the Implicit Theories
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