Relevant Research Into The Sense Of Self-efficacy And Coping Style Of Private Higher Institution Students

Self-efficacy is proposed by Bandura in 1977, self-efficacy is a concept with the ability about individual's effectiveness to cope with and deal with environmental events. Many investigations indicate that the level of self-efficacy is closely related to students' academic achievement and mental health, and also closely related to students' lives of state, achievement after they enter the society. This research investigates the coping styles and the self-efficacy of different private higher institution's students, analyzes the difference of their coping styles, and the difference between private and public college students' coping styles and self-efficacy. It aims at providing guidance to the private higher institution students with active coping styles and the cultivation of self-efficacy when they encounter difficulties.This research adopts questionnaire and interview, uses General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) and deals with the questionnaire to carry on the survey investigation. The data is dealt with statistics software SPSS 11.0. Empirical analysis is carried out by three ways: description analysis, variance examination and multiple comparisons.The basic conclusions of this study:1. The average score of private higher institution students' self-efficacy is 25.45, higher than the medium level (25). The result shows that private higher institution students' self-efficacy is higher.2. There exists remarkable difference about self-efficacy in private higher institution ege students comparing with public college students. Private higher institution students' self-efficacy is lower than that of public higher institution students.3. The coping styles adopted by private higher institution students are generally positive and mature. They mainly use problem-solving and help-seeking methods; then they use fantasy, flinching and rationalizing methods, seldom use self-blaming method.4. There only exists marked difference in self-blaming dimension between public and private universities students' coping styles. Private higher institution students use more self-blaming method.5. There exists remarkable relationship between self-efficacy and problem-solving, self-blaming and flinching in private higher institution students. Self-efficacy has positive relationship with problem-solving, and has negative relationship with self-blaming and flinching.