Students Exchange Of Fear And Self-concept, Coping Style

Communication apprehension is an individual's level of fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person or persons. College students live in the daily life involved many occasions of interpersonal communication and adaptability, due to which fear and anxiety of communication have become a rather serious psychological issue. This research focuses on the psychological issues of college students and probe into the influence on communication apprehension made by self-concept and coping style, aiming at providing research data in order to prevent and reduce college students' communication apprehension, prove their communication ability, and suggestion for psychological counsel as well.Based on the summarize made from interior and foreign relevant researches , this research adopted McCroskey's personal report of communication apprehension PRCA-24, Jiang Qianjin's TCSQ( trait coping style questionnaire), along with Zheng Yong and Huang Xiting's self-concept questionnaire when surveying among 409 college students and concluded as follow by data analyzing.1. College students' communication apprehension can be divided into four dimensions: group discussion, meetings, interpersonal conversations and public speaking. On the whole, college students' communication apprehension ranks middle and the detection rate of those who have a high level of communication apprehension is 9%. Compared with foreign former research, it scores a little lower in communication apprehension total score and public speaking sub scale, while higher in group discussion, meetings, and interpersonal conversations sub scale.2. Differences of sex, grade, education exist conspicuously in college students' communication apprehension, whereas less conspicuous in subject nature. Female students, compared with male students, experience more communication apprehension. The level of one's communication apprehension goes down if that of his education goes up.3. Positive correlation exists between college students' communication apprehension and self-concept together with positive coping style, while negative correlation does between students' communication apprehension and negative coping style.4. In the relationship among college students' communication apprehension, self-concept and negative coping style, negative coping style obviously functions as a medium and negative coping style a direct calculation. College students' self-concept influences directly on communication apprehension, and indirectly on it with negative coping style. This research basically proved the initial assumption of it, thus having the theoretical and practical significance on a level. However, there still was something that needed to be improved.