The Status Quo Of Adolescents' Self - Confidence, Positive Effects And Their Intervention

In this study,self-confidence is defined as feeling confident for one’s learning capacity.Self-cofidence could facilitate both students’ achievement and their mental health.In the survy of teenagers’ general feeling quality,self-confidence is proved to be lower than average marks and it showed a continuous decreasing in middle school stage and high school stage.Three internal ralated studies constitute the whole study of selfconfidence,in order to testify the decreasing tendency again and make a more deep study about self-confidence.In the fist study, two scales are established.They are selfconfidence scale of teenagers and influent factors of self confidence scale.The first scale includes trait self-confidence and response self-confidence. The second scale includes peers,parents and teachers,in which peers play the biggest roles. Both self-confidence scale and influent factors of self confidence scale have high validity and reliability.We use these scales to survy the current situation of teenagers. The result shows that teenagers’ self-confidence showed significant difference between grades,learning perfomance,parents’ education background and numbers of children in a family.Meanwhile, the positive after effect of self-confidence is studied through biofeedback instrument,the result of which indicate the necessity of cultivating selfconfidence in teenagers. Teenagers with different self-confidence levels have different mentl regulation when they meet difficult learning tasks,which shows difference in their skin conductance.In the end,we plan and arrange an intervene experiment of 8-week teaching classes. The result shows that teenagers’ self-confidence can be improved by on-site teaching acativies.