Psychological Development and Education ›› 2006, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (3): 41-46.

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Relationships Between Adolescents’ Hopelessness and Life Events, Control Beliefs and Social Supports

XIN Zi-qiang1, MA Jun-xue2, GENG Liu-na3   

  1. 1. Institute of Developmental Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875;
    2. Gaocheng Teacherschool, Gaocheng 052160;
    3. Department of Sociology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093
  • Online:2006-07-15 Published:2006-07-15

Abstract: The characteristics of adolescents' future hopelessness and relationships between it and stressful life events,control beliefs or social supports were explored based on a sample consisting of 607 junior and senior high schools students.It was found that half of participants' hopelessness scored within the normal range,however the others had hopelessness in different degrees,and especially 13 percent of the participants reported at least moderate hopelessness.Among the independent variables involved in this study,control beliefs as most important factors accounted for 12.6% of the variance of hopelessness.Concretely,secondary control including cognitive control as a protective factor and affective control as a risky one had prediction power for hopelessness,but primary control did not.Social support accounted for 6.2% of the variance of hopelessness for the significant predictive role of family support.Finally,stressful life events predicted only 2.7% of the variance of hopelessness.

Key words: adolescent, hopelessness, stressful life event, control belief, social support

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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