Study On The Effect Of Self-concept On Higher Vocational Student's School Adaptation

Self-concept is a relative stable system of ego-recogniaztion and self-evaluation of a person while involued in socialization. It contains one's moral character, personality, interpersonal relationship and the position in the social environment . self-concept affects individual's emotion and Behavior . School adaptation refers to that students learn to deal with others, complicate their studies and improve their personality through the positive adjustment both physically and psychologically during the college life. University is a stage of critical period to establish and perfect self-concept. With the development of cognition and the expansion of interpersonality, student's knowledge of ego-recognization becomes more comprehensive and profound. When encounter the changes of environment and tasks, posivitve self-concept will help an individuals to make self-adaption to the environment, fulfil their mandate better and establish good interpersonal relationships.The subjects in the study are 539 higher vocational students. The Tennessee Self-concept Scale and Lu XieFeng's College Students's Adaptability Inventory are used as the instruments of study. This study systematically explores students'levels of self-concept development and the characters of school adaptation as well as the effect of self-concept on adaptation to higher vocational students.The result shows that: 1,The general condition of higher vocational students'self-concept and school adaptation is good.2,There exist distinct sex differences among higher vocational students in physical-self, self-satisfication, self-criticism, global adaptation ,Career choice adaptation , interpersonal adaptation. Female students shows better than male students, while grades of female students are higher than male students in moral-self.3,There aren't distinction in major differences and also Urban-rural difference except in self-criticism and livelihood self-management adaptation.4,The higher vocational students of grade two have lower self-concept and school adaptation than students of other grades. The grade two is a low tide period in self-concept and school adaptation. There exist grade difference among higher vocational students in Career choice adaptation, enviromental general evaluation.5,There exist differences in total self-concept and genral school adaptation under the condition of different cultivating style. The student in democratic family are better than others6,The general condition of self-concept is highly positive related to the school adaptation. The effect is great and has strong predicting power. The level of self-concept shows extremely positive relations to the adaptation condition in concrete dimensions, and the effect and power also varies.7,The effect of social self and mental self on the school adaptation is great, follows with physical self, and the effect on moral self is least.