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The Relationship between High School Student’s Optimism and their Academic Achievement and its Mediating Effect

LIU Zhi-jun   

  1. School of Education, Hunan University of Technology & Science, Xiangtan, China 411201
  • Online:2007-07-15 Published:2007-07-15

Abstract: It analyzed the relationship of dispositional optimism and optimistic explanatory style, and the relationship of opt imism and student s academic achievement, and the mediating effect of positive coping strategy by questionnaire in high school students.Results showed that there were linking between the two kinds of optimism, different levels of opt imism played different effect on academic achievement; the mediating effect of positive coping strategy was not significant.It was concluded that optimism played important role on students' achievement, two kinds of optimism had different direct effect on achievement, and high level of optimism was helpful.

Key words: optimism, dispositional optimism, optimistic explanatory style, positive coping strategy

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