Self Consistency and Congruence,Coping Style and Their Interrelations Among Senior Middle School Students

Objective To know the senior middle school students' characteristics of self-consistency and congruence,coping style and their interrelations so as to provide basis for mental health education.Methods By using Self Consistency and Congruence Scale and Simple Coping Style Questionnaire,755 senior middle school students were tested.Results There was no statistical significance of the total score and the scores of each factor in their sexes and in whether or not they were from the only child family,from urban or rural areas and majored literal arts or science.There were differences among grades in the total score of self-consistency.Senior middle school students' positive and negative coping degrees differed greatly.There was no statistical significance in their sexes and in whether or not they were from the only child family,from urban or rural areas and majored literal arts or science.There were differences among grades in the negative coping degrees.The coping style and the total score of self consistency and congruence were more or less correlated with the scores of each subscale.Conclusion Positive coping factor helps improve senior middle school students' self-consistency and congruence while negative one brings adverse influence to their self-consistency.