Research On Relationship Among Employment Stress, Coping Styles And Subject Well-being Of Post-graduates

The mental health condition of post-graduates is the focus of society attention. Post-graduates have great self-expectation and social expectation, and when they face intense employment competition, they endure severe stress. So the aim of this paper is to figure out the relationship among employment stress, coping styles and subject well-being of post-graduates in order to provide suggestions for post-graduates'mental health when they face employment stress, and to improve their copingability.Questionnaires adopted in the research include Basic Information Form, Employment Stress Questionnaire, Coping Style Scale and Scale of Subject Well-being, which are answered by 400 post-graduates in Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Huazhong Normal University and Hubei University. Data analysis adopts SPSS16.0 and AMOS4.0. This research draws the following conclusions:1. The subject well-being of post-graduates is slightly higher than average. And the degree of subject well-being varies significantly with various factors such as gender, grade, major, sentiment, residence, age and performance. The employment stress of post-graduates is greater than average. And there is significant difference in school, gender, major, full-time work experience, only child, age and performance. Post-graduates prefer positive coping style and there exists significant difference in gender, sentiment, full-time work experience, residence and performance.2. Post-graduates'employment stress relates positively to life satisfaction and positive affect, but negatively to negative affect.3. Post-graduates'positive coping style relates positively to subject well-being, and negative coping style relates negatively to subject well-being.4. Post-graduates'employment stress is correlated with coping styles.5. Post-graduates'employment stress and coping styles are best predictors for subject well-being.6. Coping style is mediator factor between employment stress and subject well-being.