A study of a comprehensive high school student turns defeat or adversity adversity into victory in his school career----understanding the resilience

• Main Authors: Wen-Yuan Lo, 羅文苑
• Other Authors: Chih-Cheng Hung PH.D.
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/40942907856527105576

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 教育研究所 === 93 === Abstract The objective of this study is to understand how a comprehensive high school student turned defeat or adversity into victory in his academic achievements. In his school career , he encountered, tackled, then turned around the failure, frustration, and pressure from the studying, then gained the top score and enrolled in a national technical university through the recommendation and selection system. This study adopts life-history narrative research oriented with a qualitative research approach, and uses a purposive sampling. The theme of resilience arises from the data-analyzing process. There are 2 targeted questions in this study: 1. How did the sampled student adopt, tackle, and turn around the failure and frustration he had during his school career , in order to learn if resilience existed? 2. What mechanism did the sampled student’s resilience use to turn defeat or adversity into victory in order to reach successful academic achievement? Conclusions of the study are summarized as follows. 1. The way the sampled student overcame difficult situations was derived from his resilience. The resilience was composed of 2 factors: (1) internal protective factor: flexible attitude, orientation to deal with problems, high self-esteem, self-disciplined, optimistic attitude about life and sympathy. (2) external supportive factor: support from, and expectations of, the family, assistance from the teachers, as well as the school''s administrative resources and facilities. 2. There are 3 dimensions in the mechanism of resilience to turn defeat or adversity into victory: personal belief, important persons'' encouragement and assistance, and effective strategy in studying. 3. The failure and frustration which occurred within the school career likely provided opportunities for the student to turn defeat or adversity into victory. Finally, this research offers recommendations for junior high school students, external supportive factors, and future related studies. Keywords: resilience turn defeat or adversity into victory junior high school students