The Study On The Structure Of College Students' Personal Growth Initiative And Its Relationship With Other Factors

Personal Growth Initiative(PGI) refers to the cognitive and behavioral tendencies of engaging in active and intentional personal growth in the growth process.Improving the level of personal growth initiative may enhance the subjective well-being of people.It is very important that discussing the structure,status and influence factors of college students' personal growth initiative to enhance the level of college students' mental health.On the basis of the previous studies,the study chose college students(318 students as predictive subjects and 680 students as subjects of formal surveying) and revised Robitschek's personal growth initiative scale(PGIS-?).Then the study selected the revised Personal growth initiative scale(PGIS-?),the Adolescent life event scale(ASLEC) and the general Well-Being schedule(GWB) to investigate the relationship of them,The results of the research showed that:Firstly,the personal growth initiative scale includes four dimensions,which are readiness for change,using resources,planfulness and intentional behavior.The internal consistency of the questionnaire is between 0.813 and 0.847,the total reliability is 0.86;The outcome of each indicators has been fitting ideally after evaluating the confirmatory factor.Secondly,the personal growth initiative level of the college students in China is in a good condition and above the average level.The total and all dimensions scores of the personal growth initiative have no statistics signification in terms of gender?the region and whether the one-child;While,on the grade,the total score of the personal growth initiative has no statistics signification,on the dimension of readiness for change,the score of graduate student is higher than the other students; On the different major,the liberal arts students' total score of the personal growth initiative is higher than the science students.Thirdly,the personal growth initiative has an outstanding moderating effect to the relations between the life events and subjective well-being. It suggests that the impact of life events on subjective well-being will be affected by the personal growth initiative.