Research On The Sense Of Inferiority Of College Students And Its Correlation With Social Support, Self-attribution

This thesis summarizes the sense of inferiority and its correlation with social support, self-attribution of 782 college students from grade 1 to grade 4 by means of questionnaire and private interviews. The results indicate:1. The college students' sense of inferiority can be classified into five factors through exploratory factor analysis: nervousness or anxiety , discontentment, flinch, sense of unsafe and sense of low value.2. The college students' sense of inferiority has no significant difference among the four factors such as gender, urban and rural area, profession, family income, but it has significant difference among the four factors such as grades, schools, whether the only child and educational background. In addition, the difference of five factors relating to the college students' sense of inferiority is basically consistent with that of above eight factors separately, with only a few exceptions.3. The college students' sense of inferiority has higher correlation with their self-attribution and social support, and it has strikingly higher correlation with social support than with self-attribution.4. The college students with higher sense of inferiority make more external attribution for their success while the students with lower sense of inferiority make more external attribution for their failure, that is, the former express more pessimistic style of attribution, while the latter express more optimistic style of attribution.5. Among the three dimensions of social support such as the extent of subjective support, objective support, and the support application, and between the two dimensions of self-attribution such as the extent of internal attribution for their failure and success, the subjective support, the internal attribution for their success and the objective surpport have important influences on students' sense of inferiority.