| Background: With the coming new National policy To Strive the Development for Post-Secondary Education and the Nation’s continuing effort to improve the market economic system,the Post-secondary colleges have become an independent educational sector in the market competitions due to the demand for trade workers.However,as the permission for junior high student admission to high school has been increased,and the job placements for post-secondary graduates become very difficult,these have led more and more younger students enrolled to colleges,which has lead to the overall quality of the students dropped year after year.Many of the younger students lack of motivation and moral support.Therefore,they tend to withdraw from academic study and social activities,appearing as backward and awkward.Some of the students barely finish their junior high when they manage to enroll to colleges.Many of these students have suffered abuses and criticism from their parents,teachers,and classmates in junior high schools.They are looked down by people they know.Psychologically,the students have had certain level of resistance to the setbacks as they normally don’t have a high hope for themselves.On the other hand,they are very sensitive and fragile.They want to find a fresh starting point from a new environment,yet they are afraid to fail again.This research paper focuses on the post-secondary students mentioned above.These students are the research subject of the study.The purpose of the paper is to reveal their mental flexibility,their sense of belonging to their schools,and subjective well-being;as well the relationships between the three areas.Through the psychological analysis of the students and the results of the research,it’s hoped to provide some means and suggestions to improve these students’ subjective well-being,also provide some reference for the research in the area.The research is based on measuring and data analysis of 300 adolescent students’ scales of sense of well-being,sense of belongs,and mental resilience(PSSM).It has presented in depth analysis and discussion in the areas,and has well described the interactions between the three areas in the paper.In short,the research results show:1.Mental flexibility: Male and female students have shown significant differences in emotional control dimension of resilience.Parental occupation(whether they are farmers)contributes significant difference for target focus dimension,emotional control,and resilience scores.Mother’s occupations play significant differences for family support dimension and interpersonal assistant dimension.In terms of the sense of belonging,only students in the elementary school who have chosen living with different family members,e.g.parents or grand-parents,have shown significant differences in subjective well-being.There was no significant difference between demographic factors.2.There are significant differences for subjective well-being and sense of belonging to the school among student groups with high resilience scores.3.There are positive correlations between all dimensions and the total resilience scores with subjective well-being and the school belonging.The correlation between family support and the focus on target dimension is relatively high.The correlation between subjective well-being and the sense of belonging is moderate.4.School belonging has a significant positive correlation with subjective well-being,which can be used for direct prediction.In another word,if the scores for school belongs are high,then the students’ subjective well-being is high as well.In addition,the resilience has a significant positive correlation with subjective well-being,which can be used for indirect prediction.Further more,resilience has an intermediary role between the sense of belonging and subjective well-being,and it plays the partial intermediary role. |
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