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A Study On The Relationship Between Low-income College Students' Resiliency And Subjective Well-Being

Posted on:2008-12-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360215965638Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Resiliency refers to the individuals' ability of adaptation to maintain physical and psychological health while dealing with stress or negativity as series effects of interaction of self-protection and pressure. Nowadays, the researches on resiliency is in the initial stage inland and the researches of the relationship between Subjective Well-being and resiliency is quite few. It is necessary to explore the relationship of them for it can help the low-income college students to cope with stress and negativity, keep healthy and adaptation, and also can help to explore the intrinsic mechanism on resiliency.The study procedure is following as: from literature analysis to tool design, to measure implementation, then to analysis of characteristics and relationships. Based on the literature analysis and the inventory survey, we design the low-income college student scale, and then survey the development characteristics of the low-income college students'resiliency while review the relationship with subjectives of the low-income college student.The main conclusions follows as:1. This study proved that the structure of low-income college students' resiliency is composed of 9 factors: self-efficacy, interpersonal association ability, target feeling, emotion stability, perserving, family support, the positive belief of life, seeking support, mentality control feelings. The self-design low-income college students' resiliency scale has been proven to be of fine validity and reliability through examination.2. On the whole, there is significant difference among grades. It is gradually descended from freshmen to the senior .It shows that freshmen>sophomore>junior> senior.3. On the whole, there is significant difference in different areas. It shows that North >East>West China, and there are significant difference between the North and the West.4. There is significant difference among grades in female college students in low-income. There is significant difference in gender on senior, and shows that the male>female.5. There is significant difference in different levels of income of the low-income college students in North China. It proposed that the poorest is in the lowest level while the poor and poorer each is much better.There is significant difference in different levels of income of the low-income college students in different areas on resiliency. In the poorer, it proposed that the North is better than the East and West China while the East is better than the West as well; in the poorest, it proposed that the West is still at the lowest level on resiliency and the East is the highest while the North is at the medium level.6. It can be discerned 3 levels on resiliency by cluster's analysis of low-income college students. It is the high level, the medium and the low level while the proportion is not balance in different levels.7. There is not significant difference between the low-income college students and general college students, but the low-income college students'resiliency is higher than the general college students; and there is significant difference on the general index of well-being, Index of general affect and life satisfaction between the low-income college students and the general college students, while the general college students group is better than the low-income college students group in average.8. There is significant difference on resiliency, the general index of well-being, Index of general affect and life satisfaction between the highest and the lowest groups on resiliency of the low-income college students while the highest group is better than the lowest groups satisfaction in average.
Keywords/Search Tags:Low-income college student, resiliency, Subjective Well-being, Index of general Affect, life satisfaction
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