Psychological Development and Education ›› 2000, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (4): 8-13.

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The Influence of Stressful Life Events, Personality on the Middle School Students’ Coping Styles

  

  • Online:2000-10-15 Published:2000-10-15

Abstract: Three questionnaires were administrated to 329 middle school students to explore the relationships among the stressful life events,personality and coping styles.The results showed:(1) the stressful life events were mainly from study,parents,teacher/peer,environment,self-development and time-scarcity;(2) the personality of middle school students could be described by five factors:extraversion,agreeableness,consciousness,openness and neuroticism;(3) the coping styles of middle school students mainly included active coping and avoidance coping;(4) agreeableness,consciousness,openness made positive contributions to the predictions of active coping.Grade,extraversion and openness had both direct and indirect effect on avoidance coping by stress intensity.

Key words: stressful life events, personality, coping, active coping, avoidance coping

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  • B844.2
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