Is Not Supported Under The Pressure Of The Laid-off Workers To Cope With The Sense Of Control

The present study selected 324 laid-off persons in the city of Changchun as subjects, using questionnaires to measure the process of stressor. It investigated the characteristics of unsupportive stressor, coping styles, perceived control, and mental health, and examined the mediating effect of coping styles and perceived control. This study aimed at exploring the possibility of employing their own resources to maintain heath for the laid-off persons under the unsupportive stressor, and providing theoretical basis for related departments to conduct intervention on laid-off persons more effectively.The results indicated:1.The laid-off persons were enduring unsupportive stressor on information, and other stressors on emotion and material were slenderer than that.2. Avoidance, rationalization, resorting, self-abusiveness and venting descended successively when laid-off persons were exposed to the unsupportive stressors. The females adopted those five kinds of coping styles more frequently than males. The older persons had partiality for rationalization and avoidance. Thirty was a turning point in the development of coping styles.3.The order of the control perception was environmental changes, interpersonal relationships, emotions, and life in the circumstances of unsupportive stressors for laid-off workers, from high to low. The subjects at the age of 30-39 perceived that they could control their emotions better than those of 40-49.4.The minority of laid-off persons showed low-grade symptoms on psychoticism, photic anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive, andserious symptoms on paranoid ideation and anxiety. The females showed more somatization and negative emotion than males. The younger indicated more paranoid ideation than the older.5. Unsupportive stressors not only made directly detrimental impact on mental health, but also had indirect deterioration by increasing coping styles (self-abusiveness and venting) and decreasing control perception (the control perception on interpersonal relationships). This study confirmed that the coping styles and perceived control of the laid-off persons worked as mediators between unsupportive stressor and mental health.