Abstract
Objective: To explore the coping style of high school students and its relationship to mental health. Methods: Make a survey upon 320 students through coping style questionnaire and MSMH. Results: High school students often resort to problem solving and appeal to coping factors. No distinct gender difference is found in coping style. There are different degrees of correlation between coping style and mental health. Remarkable grade difference is shown in the factor of appealing in coping style and the three factors of compulsion, anxiety and mental imbalance in mental health. Conclusion: Relatively mature coping style has come into existence among high school students, but more guidance and assistance are in need in cultivating the coping style and improving the mental health.
Highlights
Coping style is the process of cognitive and behavioral efforts made by individuals under pressure to alleviate its negative effects
There are preliminary studies made by Huang Xiting, etc. towards the coping style of middle school students, which show that the main coping style of middle school students in China are problem solving, appealing for help, avoidance, abreacting, fantasy and endurance and that girls prefer coping style of endurance and abreacting while boys prefer that of fantasy when comparing girls with boys [2]
It shows that high school students tend to adopt positive and mature coping styles such as problem solving, asking for help
Summary
Coping style is the process of cognitive and behavioral efforts made by individuals under pressure to alleviate its negative effects. It is mentally healthy to form a proper cognition and evaluation towards events and adopt a positive coping style in front of pressure. It is of great significance to explore the relationship between coping style and mental health of high school students. Liang Junlin’s study shows that negative coping style has negative correlation with mental health [3]. The paper delves into the characteristics of high school student coping style and its relationship towards mental health on the basis of previous studies, in order to provide reference to high school student mental health education and improve their mental health
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