The Research Of Relationship Among College Students' Family Environment, Defensive Style And Adaptability

The research aims to study the relationship among the family environment, defensive style and adaptability in the university. So the result can provide some useful information to the college students'psychological health and their better adaptability.The tools of this research are the family environment scale, the defensive style questionnaire and the China college student adjustment scale. By making 500 students from freshmen to the graduated students do these three questionnaires, we can use the data to analysis how the fundamental characteristics express on the different family environment, defensive style and adaptability, meanwhile to show their relationships among the three variables. According to their relationship ratios, make the interrelated factors enter the structural model, we can see, the immature and mature defensive style would be the medium variables between the factors, such as cohesion, achievement orientation, conflict and control, and adaptability.From the study, the following conclusions can be shown:â…°The factors of the family environment are significant difference on female or male, different grade, age, major, their hometown, month income and the relationship of father and mother's, especially the cohesion, conflict, active-recreational orientation and control.â…±There are significant differences being in the mature and immature defensive style's variance analysis on female or male, different grade, age, their hometown, month income and the relationship of father and mother.â…²The adaptability also has significant difference on the age, major, grade, hometown, the family ranking and month income. However, there are no significances on the family style about bringing up and the relationship between parents.â…³There are some relationships among family environment, defensive style and adaptability. Meanwhile mature and immature defensive styles are obviously related. The adaptability is mostly affected by cohesion, conflict, active-recreational orientation, achievement orientation and control.â…´Through the path analysis, the mature and immature defensive styles may be the medium variables between family environment and adaptability.