A Study On The Ways Of Coping With Moral Events Among Teenagers In China

In the daily life of the teenager, the moral harm event happens from time to time. As a special stressor, the previous research about how to they evaluate and cope with it is weaker. The study procedures are as following: from literature analysis to instrument design,to actual survey,then to interpretation of result. Based on the literature analysis and the pilot study,the investigation explored the stress response, the selecting of ways of coping and the related inner experiences of a certain ways of coping. The research chose 180 Chinese teenagers as subjects , used group interviewing method(six person per group),took three moral situation stories as research materials. The results of the research are as follows:(1)Facing moral events,there were three kinds of stress responses:angry,resignation and sadness,and six ways of coping:problem-solving,social support,internalizing,restraint,externalizing and distancing among teenagers in China.(2)In face of moral events,on the stress response side,teenager may appear medium degree of angry,resignation and sadness;on the ways of coping side,problem-solving was their first choice,and then the usual order was social support,internalizing,restraint,externalizing and distancing.(3)Their stress evaluation and selections of ways of coping would vary with different gender and ages of teenager,types of the moral situation stories,harm degreed and projection conditions.(4)Their inner experiences would vary with different ways of coping selections. When choosing Problem-solving ,they had positive inner experiences;when choosing social support and restraint,their inner experiences was close to a neutral; when choosing internalizing,externalizing and distancing,they had negative inner experiences.