The Research Of College Students' Attributional Styles, Anxiety And Their Relationship

Attributional style refers to the cognitive models and unique attributional inclinations that individuals show during various attribution activities.It is one of the most important factors which manifest individuals' personalities.Using three properties(locus,stability and controllability) of attribution to analyze the behaviors and consequences of individuals,it's a very effective way to realize their attributional styles and emotion states.Therefore,the writer regards the study on the relationship between attribution and concrete emotions as a good way to instruct college students' attribution activities and develop their personalities.After discussing the connotation,theory and research of attributional style, three problems are studied as follows:1.drawing up the ASQU questionnaire based on learning other scholars' researches,then testing 467 college students with it to know about their attbibutional styles.;2.revising the STAI questionnaire and making use of it to test the anxiety of college students;3.making a brief study on the relationship between college students'attributional styles and anxiety according to the investigation results of ASQU and STAI.This study shows:1.Generally speaking,college students'attributional styles on school work and personal relations are healthy and reseaonable;2.College students with different grades,gender and majors have usually significantly different attributional styles,but the only—child students and non-only ones don't have usually,neither do the ones from different places:city,town or countryside;3.College students' state anxiety is higher than normal population,so is male students' trait anxiety.And state and trait anxiety of college students with different population factors is usually not significantly different.The students from Xiamen University have lower state but higher trait anxiety than college students' norm.4.College students with unreasonable attributional style are apt to experience more anxiety.