Relationship Between Life Events And Anxiety In Adolescents:Intermediation Effects Of Coping Style And Solitude

Life events is the synthesis of stimulation which an individual experienced in a certain time, that is the basic unit of life. Life events can be divided into positive life events and negative life events. The study adopts Liu Xianchen’s Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List. In the scale, the life events are negative.Anxiety is a negative emotion, that is the fear, worry and even extreme scare or terror for uncertain objective and concept. In this study, State- Trait Anxiety Inventory of Spielberger(1988) is used to measure the individual state anxiety and trait anxiety intensity, that indicated by the total scores. Because this study measures the anxiety of the individual faces negative life events, namely specific scenario anxiety, it uses only the state anxiety subscale.Coping style is the pattern and preference of an individual dealing with life events inherent. In this study, Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire of Yang Desen(1999) measures the frequency of using positive coping style and negative coping style over a period of time.Solitude behavior is the separation of individual consciousness and awareness of others, no individual information or emotional communication state with others, that is psychological and behavioral level relate with the outside world does not exist in any state. Solitude capability is the ability to deal with their own emotions, when the individual is aware of mood changes, regulating negative emotions, enhancing the ability of self-energy in solitude environment. In this study, The Capacity To Be Alone Scale of Larson(1990) to get the level of solitude capability.The following conclusions:1.The reliability and validity of Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List, Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire, The Capacity To Be Alone Scale and State- Trait Anxiety Inventory : Each questionnaire which used to test teenagers in this study has high reliability and validity.2.Teenagers negative life events score below average value. From six dimensions of life events, the relationship gets the highest score, study stress, health adaptation, loss, other, punished followed in order. The score of anxious emotion is below average value. The score of actively coping style is higher than the score of negative coping style. The score of solitude capability is above average value. Life events, coping style, solitude capability and anxious emotion show differences on gender. Life events show differences on school category. Life events, coping style, solitude capability and anxious emotion have little difference on domicile, only child. Coping style, solitude capability and anxious emotion have little difference on school category.3.The predicted degree of life events, solitude capability, positive coping style, negative coping style to anxious emotion is 3.8%.4.Positive coping style, negative coping style plays an intermediary effects between life events and anxious emotion, the intermediary effects of solitude capability between life events and anxious emotion is not significant.