Research On Postgraduates' Psychological Stress & Stress Management

The era that we are living in is one full of stress: economic crisis, contretemps, frustration in school work, disharmony about interpersonal relations etc. Psychologists think that the more developed our society is , the more advanced the social science and technology are, and the more grueling the social competition is, each stress is more outstanding. Postgraduates who are in the era must confront all precipitate stress in each aspect, and all kinds of stress sources interlaced on them lead to vehement psychological conflicts and nervousness. Ultimately their physical and psychological state is likely to be affected swinging by those factors. Many investigations indicate, the number of postgraduates is larger year after year, whose physiology, psychology, and behavior are deviated from the right path because of the stress in the recent years. Although the matter is attached importance to widely by the society, the research on it is extremely lagged. Only a few researches are rested on the stage of qualitative analysis at present, but the empirical research is lacking. Therefore, on the basis of domestic and foreign theories and practice, the data of the thesis is collected by open questionnaires, relevant interview and so on. Such as factor analysis, item analysis are employed to analyze the data. In the end, the thesis has probed preliminarily into the practical state of postgraduates' psychological stress presently, and some suggestion and advice are put forward to their stress management.The conclusions drawn by this thesis are as follows:(1) The main category of postgraduates' psychological stressThe postgraduates' psychological stress includes mainly five hierarchies: stress of live, school work, occupation, inter-person, and self-actualization. Thereinto, in the postguaduates' group, the reaction from occupational stress is the most intense, which is concerned in the increasing number of postgraduates, the relative scarce stations offered to postgraduates by the society, and the unscientific occupational standpoint etc.(2) The essential character and double influence of postgraduates' psychological stressThe character of postgraduates' psychological stress not only possesses the commonness as others, but also takes on a particularity of themselves, and is the unity of the commonness and particularity. And the reserved character of the manifestation is more prominent than others. In addition, because of the individual diversity, each postgraduates' psychological stress manifests the individual otherness. Psychological stress can also bring about some comparative influence, including positive and negative influence. And the two classifications is critically related to the individual attitude of life and psychological endurance. Generally speaking, moderate psychological stress can make them bring about the function of impetus, active imitation, moderate compensation etc. Nevertheless, if the stress is more serious, it will bring about negative influence in the aspects of cognition, emotion, volition etc.(3) The influential factors about the endurance of postgraduates' psychological stressThe intension of postgraduates' psychological stress is influenced mostly by the endurance of themselves. And yet, the influential factors in their endurance can be divided into two parts: external factors include the society, school, family; internal factors include philosophy, emotion, self-awareness, subjective cognition and individual physiology etc. And just because of the interaction of the internal and external factors, the more improvement of their psychological endurance is restricted.(4) The efficient countermeasures of postgraduates' psychological stress managementTaking precaution against and managing efficiently postgraduates' psychological stress, we must give consideration to both internal and external factors, but mainly manage the internal factors. The management of the external factors is to optimize the social environment, enhance the quality of the software and hardware in the campus. And the management of internal factors is the improvement in the individual philosophy and psychology.Departments of fostering postgraduates must devote much attention to the guidance in the management of postgraduates' psychological stress, strengthening the research of the relative theories, and drawing up efficient measures according to the real situation of postgraduates. Only thus can perfect their mind and body, enhance their synthetic quality, and make them become compound persons of ability suitable to the society.