University Students' Self-acceptance, The Trait Meta-mood And Negative Automatic Thoughts Communication Relations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences and relationship of self-acceptance, trait meta-mood and negative automatic thoughts among gender, major and grade. The key of the study is to explore the intermediary variable role of trait meta-mood between self-acceptance and negative automatic thoughts, and simultaneously provide more information about the research on self-acceptance, trait meta-mood and negative automatic thoughts among college students.The cluster random sampling was adpoted in the research by randomly selecting 500 subjects and testing them with self-acceptance questionnaire (SAQ), trait meta-mood scale (TMMS) and negative automatic thoughts questionnaire (ATQ). The effective data was processed through several statistical methods, including the methods of descriptive statistic, multivariate analysis of variance and structural equation etc., to explore the correlation between self-acceptance, trait meta-mood and negative automatic thoughts. The main conclusions were listed as follows:(1) Study on self-acceptance:There are no obvious differences between the grade and major in self-acceptance or self assessment among college students. However, the self assessment exists significant differences because of gender differences. The overall level of self-acceptance among college students is at a middle level, and this overall level among sophomore boy students is higher than that among sophomore girl students.(2) Study on trait meta-mood:There are no significant differences among the different major in emotional attention, emotional identification or emotional recovery. But significant difference could be seen in the dimension of emotional recovery because of gender or grade difference, and the gender exerts remarkable effect on emotional attention.(3) Study on negative automatic thoughts:College students'negative automatic thoughts showed no major difference but obvious gender and grade difference. The frequency of negatively automatic thoughts appearing in boys was higher than that in girls, and this frequency was highest in freshmen while lowest in sophomores. The overall negative automatic thoughts among college students was at a very low level with less frequency of appearance.(4) Analysis of the self-acceptance, trait meta-mood and negative automatic thoughts. The results showed that self-acceptance significantly positively correlated with emotional attention, emotional identification and emotional recovery, while it had significant negative correlation with negative automatic thoughts. Self assessment significantly positively correlated with emotional identification and emotional recovery but had significant negative correlation with negative automatic thoughts. There were obvious correlation between the high and low self-acceptance in negative automatic thoughts. The emotional attention, emotional identification and emotional recovery all had significant negative correlation with negative automatic thoughts.(5) self-acceptance and trait meta-mood could forecast negative automatic thoughts, and meanwhile the factors of trait meta-mood could be evidently predicted by self-acceptance.(6) Self-acceptance and self-assessment have direct impacts on the frequency of negative automatic thoughts. And at the same time, the self-acceptance can indirectly affect negative automatic thoughts through trait meta-mood.(7) Trait meta-mood acts as the intermediary variable role of trait meta-mood between self-acceptance and negative automatic thoughts, and it plays partial intermediary role in its influence on negative automatic thoughts.