An Analysis Of The Relationship Between The Coping Style Of College Student And The Social Support

Coping refers to the action of an individual who use all kinds of or different methods and activities to deal with or solve his or her behavior problems, or to balance his or her feelings or mood, when facing stress case or staying in a stress situation. There are a lot of studies about coping at home and abroad that have proved that coping is an important factor which influences the recovering from the illness of a patient, and that coordinates the relationship between stresses; or in other words, it is a major factor which is related to the result of the adoption of an individual to the stress cases or stress situation, for instance, constain, mental illness, physical diseases, and so on .Briefly , there is a close relationship between coping and a person's mental health ,Therefore ,the people concerned , especially education and psychology workers have concerned with it and paid much attention to the style of it It is believed that the problem that "how to direct school boarders to cope smoothly with all kinds of mental tension is a problem that is worth concerning by schools ,family, sociaty ,and that is an important task before the educational circles and psychological circles." Since the interacting coping theory and its model were put forward by R.S.Larzarus, many coping researchers have made deep study about it in diverse directions and levels from different angles. And in a way, the reached some common recognition, that is, they believe that the coping resource, such as character, age, genera, mental state, and the knowledge structure, self-esteem and self-efficacy of an individual etc. Have an effect on the obtain of coping style in a large degree. As a result, that influences the effectiveness and the mental health of an individual's coping.The social support or the social relationship, refers to a system of assistance or support of the spirit or the material given to the individual by all walks of life, Including families, relativesfriends, colleagues, parties, political parties , unions and other organizations ,and so on .The social support has a special function ,that is , in some degree it coordinate all kinds of negative sense of the felling that result from the individual cognitive disorder or the behavior out of the normal way to make the feelings to reach a balance state, and finally to promote the physical and mental health of an individual . In other words, the social support has an evident effect on one's mental and physical health, that is to say, how much support of the social and predict more or less the result of one's health in the mind and body. Thus, with this function, the social support has been classifying experientially by a great number of foreign researchers in their coping study. They hold that it is inevitable that the social support becomes a factor or an element of coping, or that there is a linear relationship between the social support and the individual's coping style (positive and negative style). However, is there such a linear relationship in existence between them? and how high in degree about this relationship? To these questions, foreign researchers have not made deep study or further exploration. But in our country up to now, there has not yet a systematic and comprehensive study on the effect of the factors of an individual's coping behavior due to its late initiation. And at the same time, we are lack of a necessary research and exploration about this relationship between2their interaction. As a result, there often creates such an embarrass condition: On the one hand, the mental health education in school needs an urgent strength or increase in manpower, material and financial resources; on the other hand, the coping resources schools have today have not been "made the most of ". it is based on this current situation that this article tries to made some researches and explorations on the relationship between the coping style and the social support, and contribute what I can to it. The writer found in the article the influence of the social supp...