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Students' Mental Flexibility To Cope With Test Anxiety Relations Research

Posted on:2012-09-18Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:C Z WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205330335958220Subject:Mental health education
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High school student is facing new learning challenges, the importance of the examination and test anxiety is increasing as well. This study discusses high school student's test anxiety and its relationship with coping style and mental resilience, in order to discover the root causes of test anxiety.The conclusion of this study as follows:1. High school student's mental resilience has gender difference; girl's score is significant higher than boy's in dimension of interpersonal assistance. High school girl is more willing to choose interpersonal assistance than boy.High school student's mental resilience has subject difference, art student's score is significant higher than science student's in dimension of interpersonal assistance, art student is more willing to choose interpersonal assistance than science student.High school student's mental resilience has difference in family background. The score of high school student from rural area is significant higher than the score of high school student from urban area in dimension of family support, art student is more willing to choose interpersonal assistance than science student, and the student from the rural area gets more family support.High school student's mental resilience doesn't have difference in family status, Non-only child's score is higher than only child's in dimension of emotion control, Non-only child's emotion control situation is better than only child's.2. High school student's test anxiety doesn't have significant difference in gender, grade, subject, family background and family status.3. High school student's coping style has gender difference, boy's score is significant higher than girl's in dimension of problem-solving, boy is more willing to solve the problem than girl when he facing problem.High school student's coping style has grade difference, high school student in third grade is more willing to solve the problem than high school student in first and second grade.High school student's coping style has subject difference, art student's score is significant higher than science student's in dimension of help, art student is more willing to choose help than science student. High school student's coping style has difference in family status, non-only child's score is higher than only child's in dimension of rationalization, non-only child is more willing to choose rationalization than only child when he facing problem.4. High school student with high mental resilience is more inclined to use active coping style, such as problem-solving and seeking help, high school student with low mental resilience is more inclined to use negative coping style, such as self-blame, illusion and retreat.5. High school student's mental resilience has negative correlation with test anxiety; high school student with high mental resilience has low test anxiety.6. High school student with low test anxiety is inclined to choose active coping style; High school student with high test anxiety is inclined to choose negative coping style.7. Coping style has mediation effect between mental resilience and test anxiety.
Keywords/Search Tags:mental resilience, test anxiety, coping style
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