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The Primary Compiling Of College Students Coping Styles Questionnaire

Posted on:2003-07-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:F E LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360065456529Subject:Basic Psychology
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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.Sincel970s,in this field there have been important developments in abroad especially on models and instruments.Compared with those researches our study appears quite weak.The study aims at developping a collegiate coping style questionnaire.Based on an open-ended questionnaire and interviews with some teachers and students,the study analyzed the characters of college students coping styles.Together with experts' opinion and research works in this field, a preliminary coping style questionnaire that adapt to Chinese students was developed.The results are as follows:Nine dimensions were identified through factor analysis:complaining,shifting, help seeking,problem solving,oppression, shrink back,restrain oneself,escaping, fantasy.Test-retest reliability and internal concordance coefficient(Cronbach a coefficient)were used to test reliability of the questionnaire. Internal concordance coefficient of all the factors was more than .6071 with the exception of patience andescaping.Test-retest reliability was more than .576.A11 that showed the questionnaire has good internal concordance and high test-retest reliability.Structure validity and content validity were used as validity index.The correlation coefficient of all the elements was less than 0.5,which indicated good concordance in a way among the factors;the correlation coefficient between factors and the sum of questionnaire was more than 0.5,which showed all the elements fairly good reflect the content that the questionnaire aimed to survey.The analysis of overall,gentle,grade and speciality characters of college students coping style mainly accord with collegiate reality and previous study,which showed the questionnaire had high validity.All the results indicated the questionnaire had clear factor struture,good reliability and validity.lt can be used to assess the coping style for college students.
Keywords/Search Tags:coping, coping style, mental health.
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