The Study Of Relationship Between Secondary School Students' Existential Anxiety And Self-identity

Existential anxiety and Self-identity are two important psychological notions when teen-agers begin to establish of value view and philosophy,explorate of life meaning and life direction.The smooth development of self-identity plays a very important role for young people to right face the existential anxiety.The reverse is also true.In this study,we take the secondary school students as the research object, using Existential Anxiety Questionnaier and Self-identity Status Scale.The data were collected and analyzed on a sample of 590 secondary school students of grade1-6.The difference of characteristics of human populations and the relation between existential anxiety and self-identity were discussed.Research results are followed:1 The EAQ has four dimensions, also has good consistency reliability and a factor structure consistent with the theory.2 There are significant differences among characteristics of human populations in the existential anxiety and its four dimensions.3 There are significant differences among secondary school students with diversified self-identity status in the existential anxiety and its four dimensions.That is,those with foreclosed status have the highest level of existential anxiety,while those with diffusive status feel the lowest level.4 The existential anxiety has significant correlation with self- identity. Existential anxiety is negatively related to"present input"and"will of future input"but positively related to"past crises".5 Self-identity is expected to predict the level of existential anxiety."present input"plays a role of negative prediction,"past crises"plays a role of positively prediction."will of future input"has no significant predition to existential anxiety.