An Research On General Self-efficacy Of Graduate Student And Its Relationship With Stress Coping Styles

General self-efficacy refers to a global confidence in one's coping ability across a wide rang of demanding or novel situations. As a generalized self-efficacy belief, it can predict individual activities under various situations and affect his mental health. Coping is a cognitive and behavioral struggling process in order to alleviate negative effect when individual faces frustration and annoyance. As an agency mechanism of stress and health, coping play an important role in maintaining mental health. Based on the questionnaire investigation of 296 graduate students with the General Self-Efficacy Scale by Matthias Jerusalem and Ralf Schwarzer and revises coping style questionnaire by Huang Xi ting in Wuhan, this paper makes a primary investigation on graduate students'general self-efficacy and their styles of coping in Wuhan, as well as explores the relationship between general self-efficacy and coping styles. The conclusions drawn from this study are as follows:1. The total level of graduate students'general self-efficacy is much higher, but some students'are lower than ones at average level. There not exists some significant difference between different genders and hometowns. With the ascending of grade, graduate students'general self-efficacy is increased, but the correlation is not high. The S.M'general self-efficacy is higher than Master of Arts.2. In coping styles, graduate students'scores in shifting, help seeking, problem solving and restrain oneself are much higher than complaining, shrink back, escaping, fantasy and oppression. In oppression, there exists some significant difference between different genders. Male students'scores are higher than that of female students. With the ascending of grade, the graduate students'choice of coping style is more positive and rational. In major , Master of Arts are less than S.M on using help seeking and problem solving when they are in grade 2. 3. General self-efficacy correlates with coping styles significantly. It relates positively to shifting, help seeking, problem solving and restraining oneself, and negatively to complaining, shrink back and escaping. but it relates positively to oppression.4. Except from oppression and fantasy, general self-efficacy can predict other seven coping styles to a certain degree. The prediction on problem solving, shrink back, complaining, shifting, escaping and help seeking is obviously, and is weaker on restrain oneself.