Study On Attribution Training’ Effect On Junior Students’ Mental Health

In recent years, the study of attribution theory gradually shifts from the previousattribution process research to attribution effect research. One of their focuses becomesstudy attribution training on the bad individuals of attribution style, and improving theirbehaviors through intervention individuals’ attribution style.This study began with junior students’ mental health and attribution style, anddesigned a set of systematic and operational attribution training program. Thequestionnaire method and experimental method were both used in this study. This studyincludes3steps：the first one is pretesting，testing the subjects selected on symptomself-assessment scale (SCL-90) and attribution style questionnaire (ASQ)；the second oneis attribution training on the experimental class6times in2months；the last one isposttesting, testing the subjects selected on symptom self-assessment scale (SCL-90) andattribution style questionnaire (ASQ) again in the last week of attribution training.The results show that:1. Junior students’ SCL-90scores is lower than the national norms, which meansjunior students’ mental health is good and there is no significant differences in terms ofgender and being the only child or not.2. There are67%of Junior students being inclined to be optimistic attribution,2.7%general attribution, and30%pessimistic attribution, which means attribution styles ofjunior students are generally good and there is no significant differences of attributionstyles in terms of gender and being the only child or not.3. The attribution style on positive events can not predict junior students’ mental health,but attribution style on negative events can positively predict junior students’ mentalhealth.4. Attribution training can improve junior students’ attribution styles, and make themdo internal, stable, universal attribution on positive events and do outward, temporary, particular attribution on negative events.5. Junior students’ negative attribution on negative events can predict theirpsychological problems, which suggests that it can improve their mental health throughimproving junior students’ negative attribution styles.Attribution training can effectively improve junior students’ attribution styles andmake those become more positive and healthier. We can improve their mental healththrough improving junior students’ negative attribution styles, which is worthpopularization and application in practice education.