Senior School Students' Academic Self-Efficacy And The Relationship Among Academic Self-Efficacy, Coping Styles And Mental Health Of Senior School Students

A cademic self-efficacy is the representation of self-efficacy in academic field, reflecting the individual's academic ability faith. Based on the characteristic of senior school students' study at present of our country, the paper revises senior school students' academic self-efficacy scale, makes a primary investigation on senior school students' academic self-efficacy, and explores the relationship between senior school students' academic self-efficacy and coping styles as well as mental health. The conclusions drawn from this study are as follows:(1) The revised senior school students' academic self-efficacy scale consists of two dimensions and has good reliability and validity.(2) The total level of senior school students' academic self-efficiency is relatively high, but widely different overall. There exists no significant difference between different genders at the total level of senior school students' academic self-efficacy, but there exists significant difference between different genders at the different dimensions of senior school students' academic self-efficacy.(3) Senior school students' academic self-efficacy relates positively to solving problem and seeking support, but negatively to abreaction, fantasy and withdrawal.(4) Senior school students' academic self-efficacy is negatively correlated with depression, anxiety and the general level of mental health.(5) Senior school students' academic self-efficacy and coping styles play an important role in predicting their mental health. The analysis results in path model show: On depression and the general level of mental health, senior school students' academic self-efficacy has important direct effect as well as important indirect effect; On anxiety, senior school students' academic self-efficacy has less direct effect, but has a main effect by coping styles indirectly.According to the results, two pieces of advice were proposed:(1)Improving senior school students' academic self-efficacy to enhance their self-confidence.(2) Developing senior school students' active coping styles to handle problems well.