Research On The Effect Of Middle School Students' Academic Social Comparison On Academic Stress Coping Strategies

Academic social comparison is one of the main causes that affect middle school students' academic stress coping strategies. Studying the effect of middle school students' academic social comparison on academic stress coping strategies is not only the objective need of their physical and psychological development, but also the need of social comparison's deepen research. At the same time, it is the urgent need of developing deeply research on stress and coping.The study procedures are as following: from literature analysis to instrument design, to measure implementation, then to analysis of characters and relationships. Based on the literature analysis and the inventory survey, we design middle school students' academic social comparison scale, and then we survey the developmental characters of middle school students' academic social comparison, and review the relationship between middle school students' academic social comparison and their academic stress coping strategies. The followings are our main research conclusions:1. This study proved that the structure of academic social comparison is comprised of 3 factors: social comparison orientation, social comparison direction and social comparison outcome. The self-designed middle school students' academic social comparison has been proven to be of fine validity and reliability through...