A Study On Coping Style, Perceived Social Support And Group Intervention Of Freshmen

The first part of this study attempts to explore the development status, characteristics and relationship of freshman's perceived social support, coping style.In the second part, using the coping style as the breakthrough point, applying the cognitive behavioral therapy related technologies, designing a group of counseling program, exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of this program in improving freshmen's ability to cope with the situation, and their understanding of social support.There was 683 freshman,from Zhengzhou Shengda economics trade and Management College who took the freshmen psychological evaluation survey. 18 students were selected from the participants and divided into experimental group and control group. The experimental group received 8 weeks of group intervention,and the control group did not be intervened. After the group counseling, the experimental group and the control group were all tested. This study used the t test,regression analysis,Mann-Whitney U test, Wilcoxon signed rank test and other statistical methods for data analysis.Get the following results:1.94.15% of the subjects were in a high score of perceived social support(M=67.25, SD=10.22);2.The total score of perceived social support was significantly different in gender and family location variables(p?0.01). Family support and friend support were significantly different in gender variable(p?0.01). Family support was significantly different(p?0.05) between the only-child-or-not. Family support and friend support were significantly different(p?0.01) in family location variables;3.The use of all subjects' coping style are as follows:to solve the problem(M=0.81,SD=0.17), sear-ching for help(M=0.67,SD=0.22),fantasy(M=0.37,SD=0.22),rationalization(M=0.37,SD=0.17), retreat(M=0.33,SD=0.21),self-blame(M=0.22,SD=0.23);4.Searching for help, self-blame, retreat, rationalization have significantly different in gender variable(p?0.01). to solve the problem has significantly different in whether as a student leader variable;5.There were significant correlation(p?0.01) between the factors of perceived social support and coping style.To solve problems,self-blame, searching for help can significantly predict perceived social support(p?0.01);6.In the experimental group, the difference between the pre- and post test data was significant. The difference of post test between experimental group and control group was significant(p?0.01).Conclusion:1.The overall level of freshman's perceived social support is high. The perception of each dimension from the big to small is:friends support, family support and other support. Girls' perception of social support is stronger, The perceived social support of urban students is higher.In the support of friends, girls and boys feel the same, urban and rural students feel the same.Only-children feel more family support than non-only-children.2.First,freshman mostly adopt mature coping style, and there were demographic differences. girls prefer to ask for help, boys tend to use self-blame, retreat and rationalization of the way. Class cadres prefer to solve problems than non-class cadres.3.Perceived social support and every dimension score higher, individuals are more likely to solve the problems, to ask for help. The lower,individuals are more accustomed to adopt self-blame,fantasy, retreat,rationalization of the way in the face of the pressure.to solve problems, searching-help can positively predict perceived social support,self-blame has a significant negative predictive effect on perceived social support.4.Cognitive behavioral intervention significantly improved their coping style and perceived social support level., which shows that the group counseling scheme designed in the way of coping style is effective.