Relationship Between Stress And Mental Health Among New Generation Of Migrant Workers:Mediating Eeffect Of Resilience

Resilience is an ability or a personal characteristic, which refers that the individual can perform well when the individual perceives stress. Resilience has become a hot spot of positive psychology recently. The foreign scholars have made broad researches, but the domestic researches about resilience are still at the initial stage. The purpose of this research is to provide theory references for the studies of the new generation of migrant workers and resilience. Based on combing the existing literature at home and abroad, this paper takes the new generation of migrant workers as the research object and studies the perceive stress and mental health of this special group of the new generation of migrant workers. Firstly, we respectively compared differences of the stress, mental health and resilience between the new generation of migrant workers and young workers, then explores the stress and the mental health of the new generation of migrant workers from the positive perspective.The study uses the Resilience Scale of new generation of migrant workers, the GHQ-20and the CPSS to test718young workers, contrasts the differences among the stress, mental health and resilience of two groups, explore the general situation about new generation of migrant workers' stress, mental health and resilience, showed in Demographic and makes the correlation analysis and regression analysis on the relationship between the three aspects. At last this paper inspects the intermediary role of resilience between the stress and mental health. The data of this paper is handled by SPSS16.0, and is mainly used for descriptive statistics, T inspection, analysis of simple effect, correlation analysis and regression analysis.The main findings were as follows:(1) There is a notable difference between the new generation of migrant workers and young workers in the variable of stress, resilience and mental health. Young workers have higher levels of resilience, mental health and lower levels of stress than the new generation of migrant workers; (2) There exists significant differences among stress, resilience and mental heath of the new generation of migrant workers in the aspects some demographic variables.(3) The correlation analysis shows that there are significant positive correlation between stress and mental health, a significant negative correlation exsits between mental health and resilience, significant negative correlation exsits between stress and resilience, of the new generation of migrant workers.(4) The pressure and resilience of the new generation of migrant workers have the predicative functions on mental health; the mediator effect test shows that the resilience is a party mediator between stress sand mental health.(5) The grouping test shows that the resilience was a completely mediator between stress and mental health in the group of new generation of migrant workers who got high score on stress; the resilience was a partly mediator between stress and mental health in the group of new generation of migrant workers who got low score on stress.