An Educational Intervention Study On Resiliency Of Secondary Vocational School Girls

Purpose:To understand the status and characteristics of vocational girls’resilience;To explore the relationship between vocational girls’life events, resilience and mental health;Design an education program; intervene, to research the function of resilience programs to improve the status of the vocational girls’ resilience.Object:Survey research:520freshman girls were selected from a secondary vocational school in Taiyuan as research subjects, using cluster sampling method.Intervention study:random sample of two girl classes as the research object,one for the intervention group (34people), another for the control group (33people)Methods:1. QuestionnaireIn this study,520female students in a vocational school in Taiyuan were administered questionnaires which are " the Youth Resilience Scale "," the Youth Life Event Scale "," Chinese High School Students Mental Health Scale ".2. Experimental InterventionDesign a set of resilience education programs according to the characteristics of the vocational girls.The experimental group were taken the intervention of a period of six courses,90-120minutes each time, the control group without intervention Measure the two groups before, after and one month after the resilience course, using "the Youth Resilience Scale’Y’Chinese High School Students Mental Health Scale " Use of methods such as repeated measurements for statistical analysis of the data.Results:Survey findings:1. The vocational girls’average score of resilience is95.06±13.15, with the highest score is127and the lowest score is52.2. There was no significant difference of the total score of resilience in age and the only child or not, while there are significant differences in family situation and the specialty (t=-2.878, P<0.01; F=1.93, P<0.01). Girls of single-parent families’ resilience scores were significantly lower than that of not single-parent families; the finance and accounting profession girls’resilience scores were significantly higher than the computer professional and salon professional girls.3. Life events’ section dimensions and resilience dimensions showed a significant negative correlation; various dimensions of life events and mental health showed a significant positive correlation; resilience’part dimensions and part of the mental health dimension showed a significant negative correlation. The vocational girls’life events and resilience predict to mental health. Resilience plays regulatory role between life events and mental health.Intervention Study Results:Measured the indicators of pretest, immediate posttest and delay posttest by repeated measures analysis of variance and the results display:the resilience of the test group and the control group has significant difference among treatment (F=4.516, P<0.05); resilience has trends over time (F=21.033, P<0.01), and the role of the time factor is different with subgroups (F=21.567, P<0.01). Further pairwise comparisons revealed:the test group’s immediate post-test and delayed test scores were significantly higher than the pre-test score; The test group have significantly higher scores than control group on immediate post-test and delayed-test. On mental health and its dimensionstotal, the test group’s immediate post-test and delayed-test scores were significantly higher than the pre-test scores.Conclusion:1. The vocational girls’resilience plays regulatory role between life events and mental health.2. Resilience course is an effective intervention means to improve the level of vocational girls’resilience and their mental health.