Middle School Students Self-control, Comprehend The Relationship Between Social Support And Life Satisfaction

Self-control was an important qualities of positive psychology.Domestic and foreign researches showed that people with high self-control ability had better interpersonal relationships and subjective well-being,they can also achieve their goal by direct behaviors.That's why this paper study and discuss self-control.Research 1:To suit for Middle school students,this research revised Tangney's Self-control scale(SCS).After invested 770 middle school students of four different schools with questionnaire,statistical analysis of the reliability and validity showed that the Cronbach's?coefficient was 0.80 after revised the scale,reliability coefficient was 0.81 after one month,criterion-related validity was-0.714.All indicators are consisted with statistical standard.Research 2: This research invested 500 middle school students of three different schools to discuss the relationship between self-control,perceived life satisfaction,and perceived social support.Research results showed that there was significant positive correlation between the three variables.The effect that perceived life satisfaction of middle school can be explained by self-control was 38 %,the intermediary effect was the 37.66% of total effect.Research 3: This research tracked the self-control of 120 middle school students of two different classes in a short period to observe the linear changes of their self-control.The results of this paper including:(1)The revise of self-control scale to suit for middle school students.(2)Self-control can positively predict perceived life satisfaction,perceived social support has intermediary effect between perceived life satisfaction and self-control.(3)Self-control has a linear growth over a short period of time,although there is no significant difference before and after(between first and last measurements),but the total trend is rising slowly.