Relationship Study Among Resilience, Perceived Stress, Positive Affect And Mental Health Of Higher Vocational College Students

Resilience is such a personal characteristic that one behaves well understress circumstances. It acts as the mediator buffer variable between externalstress and mental health. Higher vocational college students are relativelyspecial undergraduate, there is less research on the resilience of this kindstudents. The resilience of higher vocational college students related to theirmental health and development. The present research conducts an empiricalstudy on the relations among college students’ perceived stress, theirresiliency, positive affect and mental health. And put forward suggestions toimprove the students’ resiliency and mental health, so as to provide thereference for the improvement of their psychological qualities.By adopting Perceived stress Scale, Adult Resiliency Scale, PositiveAffect Scale and Symptom checklist(SCL—90), the present research isintended to examine higher vocational college students’ perceived stress,resilience, positive affect and the general situation of their mental health. Itfurther explores the correlations among perceived stress, resilience, positiveaffect and mental health with Correlation Analysis and Regression. Finally aspecific path model for resilience to regulate mental health under theexistence of perceived stress is constructed.The findings are presented as follows:1. There is a good scale reliability and validity of Adult Resiliency Scale,and it can be used for the study of the Higher vocational college students.2. The situation of the higher vocational college students is fine. Theirperceived stress in general relatively small, and their resiliency, positive affectand mental health are more optimistic.3. There exist significant differences among perceived stress, resiliency,positive affect and mental health in the aspects of certain DemographicVariables.4. Perceived stress has a significant negative correlation with resiliency,and a significant positive correlation with mental health; Resiliency has a significant positive correlation with positive affect, and a significant negativecorrelation with mental health; And there exists a significant negativecorrelation between Positive affect and mental health.5. Resiliency exerts the medium effect between perceived stress andmental health, and positive affect can not plays an intermediary role betweenresiliency and mental health.