Research On Resilience, Attributional Style And Academic Self-efficacy For Students Attending College Entrance Exam

With the rising of positive psychology, the research object of resilience is nomore confined in some special group, but is expanded to focus on the mentalitydevelopment of the general publicunder pressure. As to those students who are aboutto take the university entrance examination, it is of vital importance to win the battlementally to have a clear perception of explanatory style of their previous academicperformance and self-learning capability and behaviors. Therefore, taking students foruniversity entrance examination in2014as research object and through questionnaires,this thesis attempts to get a general idea of current situation of the resilience ofstudents for university entrance examinations, attributional style and academicself-efficacy and explores the relationship between resilience, attributional style andacademic self-efficacy.This thesis conducts a survey of518students in Heilongjiang province with theresilience scale for adolescence, academic self-efficacy scale and multi-dimensionalattribution of causality questionnaires respectively. And the results are as followed:（1）The overall resilience level of students for university entrance examinationis above average, and the sex variable is of remarkable difference which is that theresilience level of female students is much higher than that of male students.（2）The overall level of students is inclined to inner attribution and attributionalstyle is extremely different in relation to sex. Female students prefer to attribute theiracademic performance to their own efforts while male students tend to attribute theirperformance to luck and background. And students from the countryside are morewilling to attribute their performance to background.（3）The overall academic self-efficacy level of students for university entrance examination is above average and the great difference lies in different origins ofstudents. In respect to the learning ability dimension, male students have muchstronger perception of their self-learning capability than female students and studentsfrom urban areas, stronger than those from rural areas. As to learning behaviordimension, female students perceive their study behavior better than male students.（4）Elements like efforts, background and luck in the resilience and attributionalstyle are all closely correlated with each other. There is a positive correlation betweenresilience and efforts and a negative correlation between resilience and backgroundand luck respectively. Efforts element which belongs to attributional style has positivepredict ability to the resilience and the background has negative influence.（5）Resilience of students for university entrance examination is positivelycorrelated with self-learning capability and learning behavior respectively. Academicself-efficacy has positive predict ability to resilience.（6）Academic self-efficacy is positively related to attributional style，Academicself-efficacy is positively related to efforts element and capability element ofattributional style and is negatively related to background and luck. Attributional stylecan positively predict academic self-efficacy.（7）Attributional style and academic self-efficacy has positive predict ability toresilience.