The Effects of Loneliness and Coping Style on Academic Adjustment Among College Freshmen

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 969-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lijuan Quan ◽  
Rui Zhen ◽  
Benxian Yao ◽  
Xiao Zhou
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
College Freshmen ◽  
Academic Adjustment ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
College Life ◽  
Adjustment To College ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Negative Coping ◽  
New Perspective

We explored the relationships among loneliness, coping style, and adjustment to college from high school. Participants were a sample of 276 college freshmen from a university in China. The measures we used were the Emotional and Social Loneliness Scale, the Coping Style Scale for College Students, and the Academic Adjustment Scale for College Students. We found that loneliness had a direct negative effect on adjustment, and also negatively affected adjustment by activating a negative coping style and suppressing a positive coping style. Both forms of coping style played a mediating role in the relationship between loneliness and adjustment to college. Our findings add to the extant literature on the relationships among loneliness, coping styles, and academic adjustment in China, and have implications for addressing Chinese freshmen's adjustment to college life from a new perspective.

scholarly journals Research on the General Situation of College Students’ Coping Styles

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Zhihui Gong
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Jilin Province ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Coping With Stress ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Research Objects ◽  
Negative Coping

Coping styles are the adjustment behavior of college students to stressful situations. To explore the General Situation of college students’ coping styles, use the simple coping style questionnaire compiled by Xie, Yaning in 1998 to conduct a survey. The questionnaire is divided into two dimensions: positive coping styles and negative coping styles. This research takes 522 college students from ordinary universities in Jilin Province as the research objects, analyzes some characteristics of current college students’ coping styles, and finds that college students are more likely to adopt negative coping styles when coping with stress.

Am I Gonna Get a Job? Graduating Students’ Psychological Capital, Coping Styles, and Employment Anxiety

2021 ◽  
pp. 089484532110201
Author(s):  
Michelle A. Belle ◽  
Collins O. Antwi ◽  
Seth Y. Ntim ◽  
Emmanuel Affum-Osei ◽  
Jun Ren
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
After School ◽  
Chinese Sample ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Internship Experience ◽  
Negative Coping ◽  
Graduating Students

Thoughts about life after school can be frightening for college students. The uncertainty about employment expectancies can engender crippling anxiety, especially in a time of a major pandemic—COVID-19, and urgent attention is needed. This study, drawing on the self-determination theory, demonstrates preliminary protective effect of positive psychological capital (PsyCap) on employment anxiety among a relatively understudied group—graduating college students (Chinese sample = 546). It further illustrates the mediating mechanism of coping styles in this relation. Thus, the motivational impetus of PsyCap facilitates positive coping style (PCS) while diminishing negative coping style (NCS) which, in turn, hinders students’ employment anxiety. Furthermore, the results revealed that students’ internship experience strengthens the influence of graduating students’ PsyCap on their PCS, but that with NCS and anxiety was nonsignificant. This research proffers valuable insights on college students’ from-school-to-work transition for higher education institutions and career counselors, particularly in this turbulent labor market.

scholarly journals Perceived Stress and Cyberloafing among College Students: The Mediating Roles of Fatigue and Negative Coping Styles

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4468
Author(s):  
Yan Chen ◽  
Hong Chen ◽  
Frank Andrasik ◽  
Chuanhua Gu
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Educational Environments ◽  
Negative Coping ◽  
Stress Fatigue

Cyberloafing has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars because of the widespread use of digital devices in educational environments. This research was conducted to investigate the roles of fatigue and negative coping styles in mediating the relationship between perceived stress and cyberloafing. A total of 730 undergraduates (reduced to 716 due to incomplete data) completed self-report questionnaires measuring perceived stress, fatigue, negative coping styles, and cyberloafing. Perceived stress was shown to be a significant predictor of cyberloafing. Furthermore, negative coping styles played a unique mediating role and fatigue and negative coping styles exerted a sequential mediating effect on the association between perceived stress and cyberloafing. We envision the findings as being helpful in guiding educators develop interventions for minimizing cyberloafing by college students and its disrupting effects.

scholarly journals Relationships of coping styles and psychological distress among patients with insomnia disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinghui Li ◽  
Xiaoyin Cong ◽  
Suzhen Chen ◽  
Yong Li
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Targeted Prevention ◽  
Sleep Complaints ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Insomnia Disorder ◽  
Negative Coping

Abstract Background Insomnia appears to be one of the most frequent sleep complaints in the general population. It has significant negative impact on daily functioning. However, there has been little research that described the effect of coping style in insomnia disorder. Methods The Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ) was used to evaluate 79 adult patients with insomnia disorder alongside 80 healthy controls. Additionally, sleep quality was assessed with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90R) was utilized to determine the status of depression, anxiety and other psychological symptoms. Results Positive coping style score was significantly lower, whereas negative coping style score and nine symptomatic dimensions of SCL-90R were significantly higher in insomnia patients than in controls. Positive coping style score was adversely related to PSQI score, obsessive-compulsive, depression, anxiety and phobic anxiety, whereas negative coping style score was positively related to PSQI score, somatization and interpersonal sensitivity. Further multiple stepwise regression analysis showed that PSQI total score was independently and positively correlated with negative coping style score. Conclusions Insomniacs use more negative coping styles and less positive ones. Positive coping is adversely associated with insomnia symptoms and psychological distress, whereas negative coping is positively related to those symptoms. And negative coping has a negative effect on sleep quality. we should attach importance to coping styles of insomniacs in clinical practice, which may help to develop more targeted prevention and intervention strategies.

scholarly journals The Interactive Effects of Cognition on Coping Styles among Chinese during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3148
Author(s):  
Zemin Cai ◽  
Shukai Zheng ◽  
Yanhong Huang ◽  
William W. Au ◽  
Zhaolong Qiu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational Level ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Preventive Measures ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Stress Factors ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Positive Coping ◽  
Negative Coping

Background: The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has seriously affected people’s life. The main aim of our investigation was to determine the interactive effects of disease awareness on coping style among Chinese residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A total of 616 Chinese residents from 28 provinces were recruited to participate in this investigation. A questionnaire was used to collect demographic characteristics, cognition of COVID-19, and disease-related stress sources. Coping styles were assessed via the Simplified Coping Style Questionnaire (SCSQ). Results: The survey showed that the main source of information on COVID-19 was different in relation to gender, age, educational level, and occupation (p < 0.001). People’s knowledge of the disease, preventive measures, and stress factors were different in relation to demographic characteristics (p < 0.001). Compared with the baseline values, the scores of positive coping and negative coping based on SCSQ in relation to gender, age, educational level, and occupation were statistically significant (p < 0.001, except for participants older than 60 years). Different educational levels corresponded to statistical significant differences in positive coping (p = 0.004) but not in negative coping. Conclusions: During the pandemic, people with different characteristics had different levels of preventive measures’ awareness, which influenced their coping styles. Therefore, during public health emergencies, knowledge of prevention and control measures should be efficiently provided to allow more effective coping styles.

The Influence of College Students' Coping Styles on Perceived Self-Efficacy in Managing Inferiority

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (6) ◽  
pp. 949-957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changxiu Shi ◽  
Xiaojun Zhao
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Chinese College Students ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
General Self Efficacy

We examined the influence of college students' coping styles on perceived self-efficacy, through the mediating effect of general self-efficacy, in managing inferiority. A sample of 206 college students completed a Coping Style Questionnaire, the Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale of Chinese college students, and a general self-efficacy scale. The results showed the following: (a) there were significant correlations among the problem solving, self-blame, and fantasy coping styles, and general self-efficacy and perceived self-efficacy in managing inferiority; (b) the problem solving and self-blame coping styles indirectly predicted perceived self-efficacy in managing inferiority by general self-efficacy, and general self-efficacy played a partial mediating role between the problem solving and self-blame coping styles and perceived self-efficacy in managing inferiority; and (c) gender played a moderating role between coping style and perceived self-efficacy in managing inferiority. The results are important for counseling to enhance regulatory emotional self-efficacy.

scholarly journals The psychological distress and coping styles in the early stages of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic in the general mainland Chinese population: a web-based survey

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui-yao Wang ◽  
Qian Xia ◽  
Zhen-zhen Xiong ◽  
Zhi-xiong Li ◽  
Wei-yi Xiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
General Population ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Epidemic Outbreak ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
History Of ◽  
Negative Coping ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
And Coping

AbstractBackgroundAs the epidemic outbreak of 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), general population may experience psychological distress. Evidence has suggested that negative coping styles may be related to subsequent mental illness. Therefore, we investigate the general population’s psychological distress and coping styles in the early stages of the COVID-19 outbreak.MethodsA cross-sectional battery of surveys was conducted from February 1-4, 2020. The Kessler 6 psychological distress scale, the simplified coping style questionnaire and a general information questionnaire were administered on-line to a convenience sample of 1599 in China. Spearman’s correlation was used to measure the correlations among category variables.ResultsGeneral population’s psychological distress were significant differences based on age, marriage, epidemic contact characteristics, concern with media reports, and perceived impacts of the epidemic outbreak (all p <0.001) except gender (p=0.316). Those with a history of visiting Wuhan and a history of epidemics occurring in the community, more concern with media reports, perceived more severe impacts and negative coping style had a higher level of psychological distress, which was significantly positively correlated with a history of visiting Wuhan (r=0.548, p<0.001), a history of epidemics occurring in the community (r=0.219, p<0.001), and concern with media reports (r=0.192, p<0.001). Coping styles were significantly different across all category variables (all p <0.001), and negatively correlated with other category variables (all p<0.01) except age and marriage. Psychological distress was significantly negatively correlated with the coping style (r=-0.573, p<0.01).ConclusionsIn the early stages of COVID-19, general population with epidemic contact characteristics, excessive concern with media reports, and perceived more severe impacts have higher levels of psychological distress. Psychological distress was significantly negatively correlated with the coping style. Interventions should be implemented early, especially for those population with a high level of psychological distress and/or with a negative coping style.

scholarly journals The Mediating Effect of Coping Style on Physical Activity and Negative Affect Caused by Public Health Emergencies: Evidence from Chinese College Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 12086
Author(s):  
Yuetao Liu ◽  
Zhiyuan Wang ◽  
Songhui You
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
College Students ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Coping Style ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Negative Coping

In this study, we explored the relationship between physical activity (PA), coping style (CS) and negative affect caused by public health emergencies (PHENA), to examine if CS can play a mediating role between PA and PHENA, and analyzed the different effects of positive coping (PC) and negative coping (NC). Using the method of random sampling, 700 students from four universities in Beijing and Shanghai were recruited to complete questionnaires about PA, CS and PHENA. Data collection was conducted through online and offline questionnaires. Firstly, there is a significant correlation between PA, CS and PHENA. Secondly, PA can negatively predict PHENA, and PA has positive impact on PC and negative impact on NC. Thirdly, the mediating role of NC related to PHENA is significant, the mediating role of PC related to PHENA is not significant. College students’ participation in physical activity can reduce the probability of adopting negative coping mechanisms, thereby alleviating the PHENA.

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