The Relations Among Locus Of Control, Perceived Social Support And School Adjustment Of College Students

Based on previous studies, the dissertation discussed the relations among emotional intelligence, locus of control, perceived social support and social adjustment, by cognitive theory and ability-based emontioal intelligence.This paper included 700 participants with the Mayer,Salovey,Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, Perceived Social Support Scale and Social Adjustment Scale of College Student where 660 questionnaires returned were valid.The results of statisitical analysis were as follows:(1) Emotional Intelligence Scale had good internal reliability and validity,its theory model was good in which the fit indexes of each branches were very good,according to the examination of MSCEIT.(2) There were significant difference in gender, origin, major and parents divorced dimensions and no significant difference in grade,the only child and parents divorced dimensions for emotional intelligence and its branches.Girls were significicantly higer than boys in emotional intelligence, emotion awareness,emotion promotion, emotion understanding and emotion management;the emotion awareness of urban students was significantly higher than rural students;liberal arts students in emotional intelligence, emotion promotion, emotion understanding and emotion management were highest, science students in emotional intelligence, emotion understanding and emotion management were significantly higher than engineering students, in emotion promotion lower than them;students of parents divorced in emotion understanding were significantly lower than those of parents not divorced;(3) College students had statistical differences in locus of control.Rural students were significantly lower than urban students in locus of control;there were no significant differences in gender,grade,major,leaders,parental marriage or the only child dimensions for locus of control.(4) There were significant difference in gender, grade and whether the only child and the student leaders for perceived social support, family support, friend support and other support dimensions.Girls of all dimensions of perceived social support were significantly higher than boys;student leaders were significantly higher than normal students in all dimensions of perceived social support; liberal arts students were significantly highest in perceived social support, family support and other support, engineering students were significantly higher than science students in perceived social support and family support, and engineering students in other support were significantly lower than science students; the only child in perceived social support and family support were significantly higher than others; there were no significant difference at the origin and parents-divorced dimensions for all dimensions of perceived social support.(5) School adjustment and its branches had significant difference at gender, grade, origin and student leader dimensions.Boys were higer in learning adjustment, lower in social adjustment than girls;urban students were significantly higher than rural ones in the overall environmental identification;students in different grades were significantly different at role adjustment where sophomore was higehest, senior lower and freshman lowest;student leaders were significantly lower than normal students in role adjustment; there were no significantly difference at the only child or parents -divorced dimensions for social adjustment and its branches.(6) There were linear regressional correlations among locus of control, emotional intelligence and social adjustment.The standardized regression coefficients indicated that locus of control had a significantly higer impact on social adjustment, emotional intelligence played a mediating role between locus of control and social adaptation in which the perceiving emotion and Facilitating Thought had partly mediating influence.(7) There were linear regressional correlations among perceived social support, emotional intelligence and social adjustment. The standardized regression coefficient indicated that perceived social support had a significant impact on social adjustment.The emotional intelligence thad mediating effects between perceived social support and social adjustment, in which perceiving emotion had a partly mediating role.