A Study of the Sources of Stress and the Relationships between the Stress Coping and the Social Adjustment for Junior High School Students in Taipei City

• Main Authors: Chao, Huachen, 趙華貞
• Other Authors: Huang, Chihcheng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11879360205187323671

碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 青少年兒童福利研究所 === 100 === The main purpose of this study was to explore the relationship among the stressors, coping stategies, and social adjustment of junior high school students in Taipei city. Based on the previous literature review, the researcher designed questionnaires and conducted questionnaire investigations among junior high school students in Taipei city. The questionnaires were divided into four parts: students’ background information, their stressors, coping strategies, and social adjustment. In total, 421 students participated in this study. Frequency distribution, percentage, mean, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’ post-hoc comparisons, Pearson’s product-moment correlation and stepwise multiple regression techniques were used to process the data in order to verify research hypotheses and answer research questions. The main findings were: 1. Findings about the current state of “the stressors,” “coping strategies,” and “social adjustment:” (1) The main stressors of junior high school students were from school work. (2) The coping strategies which junior high school students used the most was “self-adjusting,” and the least was “venting their emotions.” (3) In social adjustment, junior high school students performed the best in “interpersonal relationships,” and the worse in “physical and mental health.” 2. Findings about the differences among students with varied personal backgrounds in “the stressors,” “coping strategies,” and “social adjustment:” (1) Female junior high school students were more stressed than male ones. Students living with their parents, having a college gratuated mother, having parents who treated them with “authoritative” were less stressed. (2) The coping strategies which female junior high school students used more often than male ones were “looking for support” and “self-adjusting.” Students who lived together with both their parents and grandparents used the coping strategy -- “facing the problem” more often. Students with parents who treated them with “authoritative” used “looking for support” more often. (3) Female junior high school students were superior to male ones in “acting on social norms.” Students who lived with their parents, one of their parents, both their parents and grandparents, having a college graduated father, and having a father who treated them with “authoritative” also had better social adjustment in “acting on social norms.” 3. Findings about the correlation between “the stressors,” “coping strategies,” and “social adjustment:” (1) With heavier stress, junior high school students tended to use “venting their emotions” and “escaping.” (2) Junior high school students who used “facing the problem,” “looking for support,” and “self-adjusting” more often had better social adjustment. (3) For junior high school students, the more stress they had, the worse their social adjustment would be. 4. The stressors from family and the coping strategies – “venting their emotions” and “looking for support” could effectively predict or explain social adjustment. According to these findings, some suggestions for junior high school students themselves, their parents, teachers, schools, educational administration and further studies were proposed. Keywords: junior high school students, sources of stress, stress coping, social adjustment.