The Initial Research On Interpersonal Acceptance Of College Students

Interpersonal acceptance is the attitude and expression of accepting others' and ones own behavior, tendency, feeling, thinking and some other mental activities.There are lots of research on interpersonal acceptance abroad with a lack of validity data. And some domestic researches on interpersonal acceptance are mostly following those abroad research for examination, using some measurement adapted from some mature personality inventories, with the same lack of validity data. Nowadays, issues on interpersonal acceptance are getting more and more important in Chinese researches and educators' practice, but this kind of research is still insufficient.Applying the methods of standard psychological scale making, Interpersonal Acceptance Scale for College Students (IASCS) is created with the significant reliability and validity Using IASCS and Questionnaire of college students' interpersonal relation condition, SD Questionnaire of Personality Traits,993 college students were measured . The results show:1.Within the dimensions of sex, grade and major, there exited asignificant difference totally in average scores of interpersonal acceptance. But between every two categories the significant level differentiated.2.The data analysis of High Acceptance Group (N=128) and Low Acceptance Group (N=140) shows: there is obvious positive correlation within the three categories in interpersonal acceptance. The higher the college students' acceptance, the higher their self acceptance, the acceptance for others and the sense of acceptance for oneself from others. The lower the college students' acceptance, the lower their self acceptance, the acceptance for others and the sense of acceptance for oneself from others.3. The higher the self-acceptance of college students, the higher the acceptance for others and entire interpersonal acceptance. But, the score of the sense of acceptance for oneself from others was not so high.4. The college students' interpersonal acceptance level did not relate with realistically being accepted or being kept away from others .5. The three categories of college students' interpersonal acceptance and the total score did relate with extroversion, kindness, sense of responsibility and the total score of personality traits.The research has not only theoretical value in Personality and Youngsters Psychology, but also some practical value in the building college student healthy personality.