High School Students Self-concept, Mental Toughness And Academic Performance

Nowadays, the campus of the senior-middle school is "occupied" by the youth who were born in the 90s of the last century, usually known as "post nineties generation". Either on the net or in the reality, the word "post nineties generation" is seemed to have the same meaning as the words" on-mainstream", "impaired-brain", etc., which are considered to be the so-called neutral, or absolute derogatory words, and even get more and more attraction of the people in our society, but the value of the topic is not always good, sometimes even bad. Many people think that the "post nineties generation" are selfish, apathy, of high-sounding characters, and with weak capability to withstand frustration, but what is the real fact in our daily life? Then, the senior-middle school students naturally became the subjects of the researchers, and the important group which the educators and the psychologists concern. And then, since the study mainly concerns about the relation between self-concept, resilience of senior-middle school students and their academic achievements, with no doubt, the post nineties generation will be the subject of this research. This study aims to uncover the characteristics of self-concept and resilience of the current senior-middle school students, makes a deep discussion about the three concepts:self-concept, resilience and academic achievements, and makes it clear of the relation between each pair of the three concepts, and then provides empirical data and materials for educators to better understand the current senior-middle school students, which could benefit the latter education due to the senior-middle school students.This thesis adopts Marsh's Self Description Questionnaire (Ⅱtype) revised by Chen Guopeng (1997) and Adolescent Resilience Scale (2008) established by Hu Yueqin and Gan Yiqun, et al, takes a spot check of 400 senior-middle school students. According to the statistic analysis of the data taken from the investigation above, we may get the following conclusions:Firstly, generally speaking there are no apparently differences between different grades in the aspect of self-concept in senior-middle school, but in the specific sub-scale, both the self-concept in mathematics, there are significant differences between each two grades, and the self-concepts of same-sex relationship are also significantly different, meanwhile the remaining nine scales are not significantly different.Secondly, generally speaking there is no apparently difference in the aspect of self-concept between males and females of the senior-middle school students. But in specific sub-scales, there are significant differences in the aspects of mathematics of self-concept, physical self-concept, verbal self-concept, self-concept in the same-sex relationship and self-concept in the relationship with the opposite sex.Thirdly, generally speaking there are no apparently differences between different grades in the aspect of the resilience of the senior-middle school students. But in specific sub-dimensions, there are significant differences in the aspects of the family support and interpersonal help.Fourthly, generally speaking there is no apparently difference in the aspect of resilience between males and females of the senior-middle school students. But in specific sub-dimensions, there are significant differences in the aspect of interpersonal help.Fifthly, there are significant differences in the aspect of self-concept on different levels of academic achievement of the senior-middle school students, and also in the aspect of academic self-concept there are significant differences. And there is a significantly positive correlation between total score of academic achievement and self-concept of the senior-middle school students.Sixthly, there are no apparently differences in the aspect of resilience on different levels of academic achievement of the senior-middle school students, only in the specific dimensions of family support, there are significant differences. And what's more, among all the dimensions in the aspect of resilience, the dimension of family support is the only one which has significantly positive correlation with the total score of academic achievement.Finally, there are significantly positive correlations between the total scores of self-concept and the resilience of the senior-middle school students.