The Relationship Between Sickness Perception And Psychological Adaptation In Secondary Vocational School Students: The Role Of Social Support And Coping Style

China is promoting the development of vocational education, but the development of vocational education is facing the problem of recruitment difficulties.The reason is that vocational education aimed at training professional and technical personnel, but the student’s evaluation criteria of community is more focused on academic achievement, rather than technical level. Vocational school students have been labeled as the s "underachiever", "poor students". As a widespread social phenomenon, stigma has a negative impact on stigmatized groups who may have poor self-identity, higher loneliness and depression experience. Vocational students are in special development stages of life. They are not fully matured. We pay attention to those issues. Facing social stigma of vocational education, whether the students agree with the vocational education, and whether internalized the stigma, as a stigmatized whether to experience the negative effects, and whether to adopt active measures to counter the negative impact of stigma. In the field of coping study, social support and coping strategy are effectively buffered variables which can cushion the pressure’impact on the individual and protect the mental health. Therefore, social support and coping strategy were included into the study of stigma and psychological adaptation.This study aimed to provide a support for the vocational students’ psychological adaptation development.Students from two vocational schools in Shanghai took part in the study. The research used the teacher questionnaire, a SC-IAT Pattern and other structured questionnaires. The experimental method and questionnaires were combined to study the vocational school students’ stigma perception, the relationship between the perception of stigma and psychological adaptation, and the social support and coping strategies’ role.The results showed that:(1) Teachers in vocational schools thought their students suffered stigma of vocational education.(2) The SC-IAT experimental results showed that students from vocational schools linked the vocational concepts with negative words more quickly than linked with positive words. Students in vocational school have perceived stigma but there was no significant differences in gender.(3) There were significantly high correlations between stigma perception and loneliness, depression and anxiety. Stigma perception and social support were significant negative correlated. Stigma perception and approach coping style were significant negative correlated, but with avoidant coping style were positively correlated.(4) The perception of stigma could positively predict loneliness, depression and anxiety. Social support could buffer the effect directly, and also can buffer the effect indirectly by affecting the approach coping style.(5) The perception of stigma could positively predict loneliness, depression and anxiety. Social support could buffer the effect directly, but the avoidant coping style could strengthen the effect.