An Exploration of The Relationship among The Personal Coping Behaviors, Social Support and Psycho-physical Health Following A Relationship Breakup of The Adolescents

• Main Authors: Hui-min Chao, 趙慧敏
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96799616091512204189

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 心理學系 === 94 === The main purpose of this study was to explore（1）the psycho-physical health situation when the adolescents face stress from a relationship breakup；（2）the coping behaviors when they face stress from a relationship breakup；（3）the sources and contents of their social support；（4）the effect of coping behaviors and social support on their psycho-physical health situation. The sample of 193 students was chosen from nine of thirty-two senior high schools in Taipei through purposive sampling. Statistical description, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Schff’e method , Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the data. The findings of this study are as follows: With the relationship breakup, as far as psycho-physical health problems are concerned, what happens most is mental symptoms, the next is physical symptoms, and the last is behavioral symptoms. The most frequently-used coping behavior is problem-focused active coping, followed by problem-focused passive coping、emotion-focused active coping、and emotion-focused passive coping. With the relationship breakup, they obtain the most support from their peer. The most accessible social support content is emotional support. In terms of the influence of the coping behaviors on the psycho-physical health ：The more recent the relationship breakup, the more they use emotion-focused passive coping, and the worse their psycho-physical health becomes. In the long term, it is not useful for physical health adaptation and mental health adaptation. The problem-focused passive coping has negative effect on the adolescents’ mental health and behavioral health. Also, the greater the severity of breakup, the greater is negative effect on their mental health. The emotion-focused active coping is useful to adolescents’ behavioral health、physical health adaptation and mental health adaptation. In terms of the influence of the social support on the psycho-physical health ：The effect of school counselors’ support usually reveals when the adolescents’ psycho-physical health in the worse condition. But in the long term, school counselors’ support is useful to the adolescents’ mental health adaptation and behavioral health adaptation. As for the support of sibling, the sibling’s support can reduce the deterioration of behavioral health at the initial stage of breakup, and be useful to their mental health adaptation and behavioral health adaptation. The support of father is useful to the adolescents’ mental health adaptation and behavioral health adaptation. But the peer’s support has negative effect on the adolescents’ mental health adaptation and behavioral health adaptation. As for the content of support, all of emotional support、informational support、instrumental support、 and social accompanying support have positive effect on different parts of psycho-physical health following a relationship breakup . In conclusion, the results of the study make educational contributions and suggestions to the educators、counselors、 parents and researchers for further studies.