High School Students' Reading Adventures

Middle school students often take risk-taking behaviors and bring about harmful results to the students themselves, the others and even the society. So it has been attracted wide attention of scholars at home and abroad for a long time. Although several genres based on physiology, psychology and sociological had studied the risk-taking behaviors of middle school students and tried to explain why they participate in it so that we can take more effectively measures to reduce the negative consequences come from it. But the measures" effect is not very obvious. Now risk-taking behaviors of middle school students still exist, and presents a high incidence of and diversity. The research tries to explore and explain the deep reasons of why middle school students participate in the risk-taking behaviors in Rollo May existentialist psychology theory framework. Interprets the risk-taking behaviors of middle school students from the existence of the personal needs of teenager’s development, and takes into the relationships among the satisfaction to existence needs, anxiety, sense of self and risk-taking behavior of middle school students. I hope that the research can promote people to form scientific understanding to middle school students" risk-taking behaviors and guide it properly, promote the healthy growth of the students.First, the author establishes "existence’" is the foundation of life and has vital significance to the survival and development of individual according t o the existence of the psychology of socialist Rollo May’s theory. And then explores the factors that threat to the "existence" of middle school students and the generation of anxiety. And next, by theory research and empirical research, the author finds that forming the sense of self is an effective way of middle school students to coping with anxiety. And some middle students seek the sense of self by" participating in the risk-taking behaviors. As a result, the author puts forward:middle school students risk-taking behavior is a means to resolve anxiety. And the positive risk-taking behavior is the good method to resolve anxiety, so we can accept; Negative risk-taking behavior is a bad means to resolve anxiety, and needs to be rectified.In this research, I acquire the first-hand material mainly by the participatory observation, questionnaire survey and case interviews and other methods to understand the present situation and the reason why the middle school students participate in the risk-taking behaviors. I also learn Rollo May’s theories about Existentialist psychology by mean of literature research. And then tries to study and explain the deeper reasons that why the middle school students participate in risk-taking behaviors. At last, to promote healthy growth of middle school students for this, we shall give responses to them and guide the middle school students’risk-behavior from the practical level and the ideal level.