The Study Of Relationships Among Psychological Empowerment,Self-esteem And Cognitive Style And It's Intervention In The Urban Community Residents

The objective of this paper is to find out the relationship among the self-esteem,cognitive style and psychological empowerment of the urban community residents,and on this basis,in order to improve residents' level of psychological empowerment through the way of group intervention.This research is divided into two sub studies.In the research one,681 community residents of Xuzhou were investigated and studied by using the Self-Esteem Scale,Embedded Figure Test and Psychological Empowerment Scale of Urban Community Residents,in order to find out the relationship among the self-esteem,cognitive style and psychological empowerment of the urban community residents.The results of the research show that:(1)On the whole,the Urban community residents have the medium level on psychological empowerment,the dimension scores from big to small in turn as follows:the criticism tendency based on the change,the self-control of participation motivation and ability of self-evaluation.Residents' level of psychological empowerment has significant difference on the demographic variable,which are gender,age,marital status,education level,occupational categories,fixed number of year and participation.(2)Self-esteem,cognitive style and psychological empowerment relationship closely,and the predictive power of psychological empowerment on self-esteem,cognitive style reached significant level.Cognitive style plays the part of the intermediary role between self-esteem and psychological empowerment,self-esteem can directly affect the psychological empowerment,also can indirectly affect the psychological empowerment through cognitive style.On the basis of research one,40 community residents who were in research were intervened by the method of group intervention.The intervention process last for 5weeks and 5 times,and set up 20 subjects respectively in experimental group and control group.The results of research show that:(1)Before the psychological empowerment intervention study,there was no significant difference between control group and experimental group level of psychological empowerment.After the intervention study,significant difference wasfound in control group and experimental group level of psychological empowerment,which was the psychological empowerment of the experimental group were significantly higher than that of control group psychological empowerment level.And after the intervention,the level of psychological empowerment of the experimental group was significantly higher than the level of psychological empowerment of experimental group before the intervention.(2)Qualitative material analysis results show that in the process of psychological empowerment intervention activities,people can not only realize self value,but also can play to their characteristics and advantages of cognitive style type,and actively participate in community activities,raise the level of psychological empowerment.