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Research On The Relationship Among Self-esteem Personality, Coping Style And Depression Of High-school Students

Posted on:2010-10-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q S LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278468702Subject:Clinical Psychology
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Objective: To investigate the status of high-school students' depression, and explore the relationship between self-esteem,coping style,personality and depression.Method: Cluster sampling was used to select 340 high-school students in ChangSha as subjects. The Self-Esteem Scale(SES) ,Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ),Trait Coping Style Questionnaire(TCSQ) and Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS)were used in this investigation.Result: 1. In our research,there were 27.9% of the high-school students with different levels of depressed mood.2. Significant difference of the total scores of depression was observed in gender and grade dimention,female students had a significantly higher scores compared to male ones,grade two students also had a significantly higher scores compared to grade one,showing that the status of the depression in female and grade two students should be paid more attention to.Female students had a significantly higher scores compared to male ones in negative coping style dimention of trait coping style,grade one students had a significantly higher scores compared to grade two in positive coping style dimention,indicating that more girls than boys tent to use negative coping style,grade one students more likely tent to use positive coping style than grade two students.Girls had a significantly higher scores compared to boys in neuroticism dimention of personality,suggesting that girls showed more emotional instability than boys.3. The total scors of SDS were significantly negatively correlated with the scores of SES,positive coping style ,intro-extraversion and lie dimention,but were significantly positively correlated with the scores of negative coping style,psychoticism and neuroticism dimention.4. Neuroticism,self-esteem,negative coping style,psychoticism and. positive coping style could significantly predict the presence of depression, neuroticism,negative coping style and psychoticism could significantly positively predict the existing of depression,others could significantly nagatively predict the existing of depression. Conclusion: The depression were significantly correlated with the self-esteem,copingstyle and personality, neuroticism,self-esteem,negative coping style,psychoticism and positive coping style could significantly predict the presence of depression.
Keywords/Search Tags:High-school Students, Self-esteem, Coping Style, Personality, Depression
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