A Preliminary Study On Coping Styles Of Junior Middle School Students From Higher And Lower Social Support Families

This study aims to invent the Family Social Support Questionnaire (FSSQ) which is suited to current junior middle school students' family education, and to explore characteristics existing in coping styles of junior middle school students from two types of social support families (higher social support families and lower social support families).According to the rules of compiling psychological tests, through open-ended questionnaires and interview, topic editing, scale pretesting, topic analyzing etc. We made the FSSQ and integrated it with the Coping Style Scale of Middle School Students (CSSMSS) made by Prof. Huang Xiting, we researched on 572 junior middle school students from five schools, among whom 286 junior middle school students from higher and lower social support families were involved in the analysis. The results are as follows:1. The self-made questionnaire is of good reliability and some validity. Through factor analysis, 5 factors were gained: material support, living information support, education atmosphere support, emotion support and relationships support2. Students from higher social support families used more frequently problem-solving and help-seeking coping styles but less fantasy and tolerance styles than those from lower social support families.3. In complete families, students from higher social support families used more frequently problem-solving coping style but less fantasy and tolerance styles than those from lower social support families.4. In divorced families, students from higher social support families used more frequently problem-solving and help-seeking coping styles but less fantasy style than those from lower social support families...