The Relationship Between High School Students' Shame And Academic Adaptation: The Intermediary Role Of Academic Help

Academic adaptation is the most critical factor for school adaptation of students in middle school, which is not only a kind of ability each student coping with the change of learning environment, but also a possibility of academic success. The academic adaptation in high school stage plays a vital role in influencing every aspect of the students. There are many factors that can affect academic adjustment, among which personality is a very important factor. The high school students is in the important stage of physical and mental development, the rapid development of physiological growth and self-consciousness makes it easier for individual to show shyness. Excessive shyness has an negative influence on individual ' s learning and social interaction. Academic help-seeking is an effective cooperation style of initiative of behavior, emotional interaction, and information transfer, which is showed in the process of learning. For shyness individual, is the personality characteristics will hinder its academic help-seeking and further affect the academic adjustment? This is a question of this research to explore.This study had explored the relationship among shyness of high school students, academic help-seeking as well as academic adaptation with a total of 681 students as targets from two high schools of Lai xi, Qing Dao. The study adopted the “Academic Adaptation Scale” developed by Ding Jun, the “Shyness Scale of Middle School Students” developed by Chen Yingmin, and the “Academic help-seeking Scale” developed by Tang Fanggui. The results were as followed:1. On the whole, academic maladjustment of high school students was in medium-high level with significant distinctions at different grades. The differences were: academic maladjustment of Grade 3 was the highest, which was obviously higher than those of Grade1 and Grade 2. And there was no statistic importance in gender.2. Shyness degree was in notable positive correlation with academic maladjustment of high school students. High school students' costs of help-seeking(teacher, schoolmate) also had remarkable positive relationship with academic maladjustment. However, the benefits of help-seeking were significantly negatively correlated with academic maladjustment; avoidance of help-seeking was strikingly and positively correlated with academic maladjustment, and instrumental help-seeking was marked negatively correlated with academic maladjustment. The relationship between high school students' shyness and the academic help-seeking attitude and behavior were all significantly positively correlated, among which, shyness was noted negatively correlated with the benefits of help-seeking and instrumental help-seeking, and was observed positively correlated with the costs of help-seeking(teacher, schoolmate) and avoidance of help-seeking.3. Shyness and academic help-seeking had obvious prediction effect on academic adaptation, and shyness can directly and indirectly affect academic adaptation. The benefits of academic help-seeking, costs of help-seeking(teacher, schoolmate), instrumental help-seeking as well as avoidance of help-seeking function as intermediary agent partially for the relationship between shyness and academic adaptation of high school students.