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The Revision Of College Student Reasons For Living And Preliminary Application In College Students

Posted on:2019-03-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X R WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2347330563454205Subject:Applied Psychology
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College student suicide is a hot spot for countries around the world.The incidence of suicide among Chinese college students has increased compared with previous years,which has attracted the attention of more scholars.At present,the current study on suicide focuses on risk factors for suicide and less on the protective factors of suicide.In 1983,the foreign scholar Linehan proposed the concept of survival reasons for suicide protection factors,and developed Reasons for Living Inventory(RFLI).Another scholar,Westefeld,developed the College Student Reasons for Living(CS-RFL)for the special group of college students according to the procedures of Linehan's preparation of scales.At present,there is little research on the survival reason scale in China.Only Xiong Yan and her colleges revised the version developed by Linehan et al.,and scholars have not revised the version developed by Westefeld.This study revised the version prepared by Westefeld.First,using the literature method,collect relevant domestic and foreign literatures and conduct reading analysis.Secondly,using the expert consultation method,based on the literature,the original scale was translated,and several experts evaluated the content validity.Then pre-test,formal test,and application test were performed in college students' samples.The sample size was 386,1161,and 332 respectively.Through project analysis,exploratory factor analysis,and reliability and validity test,a Chinese version of the College Student Reasons for Living was finally generated.In the application test,the students' survival reasons are also analyzed on the basis of differences in grade,gender,and professional,and a preliminary analysis of the regulatory effects of survival reasons between depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior.The results of this study showed that: Firstly,the Chinese version of CS-RFL as 41 items,including survival and coping beliefs,college and future-related concerns,moral objections,responsibility to friends and family,fear of suicide and fear of disapproval.Second,based on project analysis,exploratory factor and confirmatory factor analysis,delete items 3,20,35,28,46,and put item 41 into the factor of college and future-related concerns.Third,analyzing the reliability and validity,and the result is satisfied with statistical standards.Fourth,the internal consistency coefficients of the revised scale: survival and coping beliefs is 0.950,college and future-related concerns is 0.920,moral objections is 0.750,college and future-related concerns is 0.870,fear of suicide is 0.791,fear of disapproval is 0.957.The CS-RFL is negative correlated with Beck suicide ideation scale.There are significant differences in survival reasons between suicide ideation and non-suicide ideation.Fourth,there is no significance in professional and gender for survival reasons of college students and the significance only exists between freshmen and seniors on the factor of college and future-related concerns.Fifth,there is survival reasons' adjustment effect between depressive symptoms and suicidal behavior.
Keywords/Search Tags:college student reasons for living, college student suicide, questionnaire revision
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