A Study On Social Support And Community Intervention In The Single - Parent Family

With the social development, in the proportion of school-students, more and more children from single parent families, and it’s more outstanding in secondary vocational school students. This study includes two parts:The first aims to explore the total situations of social support and perceived social support of the secondary vocational school students from single parent families. It’s also important to explore the differences on the demographic variables of the secondary vocational school students from single parent families. And study the relationship of their social support and perceived social support by taking a questionnaire on 442 secondary vocational school students with “social support revalued scale” and “perceived social support scale”, there are 42 students from single parent families and 400 from the other. Then use SPSS to analyze and process the collected data; The second part stands on that base, focuses on the intervention by group counseling, aims to raise the ten secondary vocational school students’ perceived social supports who come from single parent families and have poor capability on perceived social support. The results are as follows:First, students from single parent families’ scores significantly lower than students from whole families in the objective support, the subjective support and the total situations of social support.Second, there are some results in the differences on the demographic variables of the secondary vocational school students from single parent families. In terms of gender, girls’ perceived social support ability is superior to boys’ ability obviously. In terms of lifestyle, the students who long live with their father’ scores significantly higher than others about making use of the supports, the total situations of social supports and family support. In terms of single parent families’ length of time, the scores of students whose over five years are higher than the other. In terms of the only child or not, in the subjective support, the objective support, the total situations of social support and family support, the only child have higher scores than others.Third, there is a very significant positive correlation between the social support and the perceived social support of secondary vocational school students from single parent families. The coefficient of association is 0.55.Fourth, in the intervention by group counseling, the group counseling about enhancing the perceived social supports have positive effects to the total situations ofsocial support’ developments of secondary vocational school students from single parent families. It’s worth for them to improve their mental health level.