The Influence Of Interpersonal Training For Multiracial Middle School Students On Their Interpersonal Relationships And Socialization Capacities

Interpersonal communication, which is the basic phenomenon of human social activities and the reflection of human fundamental needs, began since the dawn of mankind. The middle school period is the key time to the whole life of a student and the socialization capabilities of middle school students has an important influence on their psychological health, socialization and life development. Most of extant research on the middle school students in our country focuses on Han ethnological students given the Chinese Han cultural background but few on other ethnological students. China is a multiracial country and there are many racially mixed schools distributed throughout the whole country. The special characteristics of various cultural traditions, living customs and behavioral manners might influence the interpersonal communication of middle school students in racially mixed schools.The research focuses on the situations and influential factors of interpersonal training, interpersonal relationships and socialization capacities of students in multiracial middle schools, and the relationship between these three. We carried out research to 1996 students in eight multiracial schools located in the areas of Linxia Hui muslim autonomous region of Gansu province, Gannan Tibetan autonomous region of Gansu province and Aksuensis area of Sinkian, using questionnaires on interpersonal training and interpersonal relationships designed by ourselves and questionnaire on socialization capacities revised from Zouhong. The collected data has been analyzed and the results are shown as below.1. The reliability and validity of interpersonal training questionnaire and interpersonal relationships questionnaire designed by ourselves have been achieved according to the criteria for general psychology surveys.2. The overall situation of surveyed students is good regarding their interpersonal training, interpersonal relationships and socialization capacities. From the interpersonal training aspect, the training provided by parents is most effective followed by the training from companions and then teachers. From the interpersonal relationship aspect, the relationship level between teachers and students is the highest and the second is the companion relationship while the last is the relationship between parents and children. From the socialization capacities aspect, the best one is cognition capacities, the second is communication skills and the last one is socialization motives.3. There is an evident difference in interpersonal training, interpersonal relationships and socialization capacities among multiracial school students with different attributes including gender, nationality, grade, the location of their families and the economic situations of their families, etc.4. Each dimension of interpersonal training has a positive impact on interpersonal relationships and socialization capacities of students in multiracial middle schools.5. Different structural models are built examining the impacts of interpersonal training on interpersonal relationships and on socialization capacities respectively as well as the relationships between these three variables. All indicators of model validity are satisfactory.