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The Relationship Between College Students' Negative Life Events And Their Meaning In Life:The Mediating Role Of Counterfactual Thinking And Coping Style

Posted on:2019-05-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W J ChangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2417330545471586Subject:Applied Psychology
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The meaning in life refers to the individual's perception of their own existence value and their awareness of their goals,tasks or missions in their lives.It seems to be nothing,but it is closely related to people's sense of well-being.Individuals with a sense of life are more able to maintain their inner determination when facing the lure of materialism,and move forward with hope when facing difficulties,so as to obtain a higher sense of well-being.The negative events are the objective existence in life and the direct source of the sense of life meaning,which has an important influence on the meaning in life.The main purpose of this study is to examine the current status of college students' sense of life meaning and the impact of negative life events on them,and to further explore the mediating role of counterfactual thinking and coping strategies among them.This study used Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check-list(ASLEC),Counterfactual Thinking for Negative Events Scale(CTNES),Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire(SCSQ),and the Meaningin Life Questionnaire(MLQ)to study 531 college students from a college in Henan Province.After statistical analysis to data,,the following conclusions were reached:(1)The college students,sense of meaning in life is generally in the middle and upper level.They have a higher experience of the meaning of life and actively seek for the meaning of life.(2)Compared with boys,students majored in science and technology,only children,girls,students majored in the humanities and social sciences score higher on the sense of life meaning.(3)The more negative life events the college student encounter,the more negative they experience to the sense of life meaning,and the more active they seek to the sense of life meaning.(4)The more negative life events that college students encounter,the more likely individuals who tend to produce upward counterfactual thinking and respond positively,the more urgent the search for meaning of life is.(5)In addition to directly influence the sense of life meaning,negative life events can also influence it by a chain of mediations of counterfactual thinking and coping strategies.The more counterfactual thinking and coping strategies produced by individuals,the more meaningful the more active they seek to the sense of life meaning.(6)In addition to directly influence the sense of experience,negative life events can also influence it by coping strategies..The more coping strategies individuals generate,the more positive one experience to the sense of life meaning.
Keywords/Search Tags:meaning in life, negative life events, counterfactual thinking, coping style
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