Undergraduates' Love Values And The Correlation Between Their Love Values And Stress Coping Styles

With the development of physiological and psychological function of sex,undergraduates,a representative group of modern youths,begin to acquire love and make it a very important part of their college life.During such process they develop certain values about love,but at the same time they encounter a lot of failure,frustration that course serious stress and they have to cope with such stress.But which coping styles they select to solve problems about love and something else? The characteristics of undergraduates' love values,stress coping styles and the correlation between them may provide significant answers.This study has investigated the love values,stress coping styles of 606 undergraduates who come from four universities in the southwest of China,using Youths' Love Values questionnaire by Sha sha Liao,Stress Coping Styles questionnaire by Ji hua Xiao.Finally, We made some constructive suggestions to help modern undergraduates keep mental health and adopt the right way to cope with the stress coursed by love values.The results of this study show as follows:1.There are significant differences among aspects of love values pursued by undergraduates in universities,and most of them prefer dedication and romanticism.According to the descending order,undergraduates' love values row preface is,dedication,romanticism,utilitarian,eroticism. Female undergraduates more tend to pursue utilitarian than male undergraduates do.Compared with minority,undergraduates from Han less tend to pursue romanticism,utilitarian and eroticism. Undergraduates from city less tend to follow dedication than those from country do. Undergraduates with love experiences more tend to pursue utilitarian and eroticism,but less tend to pursue dedication than those without love experiences.Undergraduates who have been disappointed in love more tend to pursue utilitarian and eroticism than those who have no such pain.2.The main coping styles used by undergraduates encounting frustration from love matters are Solving problems,asking for help and conceit.According to the descending order,undergraduates' coping styles row preface is:Solving problems,asking for help,conceit,avoid,rationalize and self-reproach.Compared with female undergraduates,male undergraduates more tend to use the method of solving problems.Junior undergraduates more tend to use the stress coping styles of asking for help,conceit,avoid,rationalize and self-reproach than senior undergraduates. Undergraduates of art more tend to pursue the method of solving problems than undergraduates of science,but undergraduates of art more tend to pursue self-reproach than undergraduates of science.3.This study found there are significant correlation between styles of love values and coping styles: (a).the love value of eroticism has significant negative correlation with the stress coping style of solving problems,but significant positive correlation with the stress coping style of conceit,avoid, rationalize and self-reproach;(b).the love value of utilitarian has significant positive correlation with the stress coping style of conceit,avoid,rationalize and self-reproach,but significant negative correlation with the stress coping style of solving problems;(c),the love value of romanticism has significant positive correlation with the stress coping style of conceit,avoid,rationalize and self-reproach;(d).the love value of dedication has significant positive correlation with the stress coping style of solving problems,but significant negative correlation with the stress coping style of asking for help and rationalize.To conclusion,the love values of undergraduates can somehow predict the tress coping styles.