An Empirical Study On Sports Participation, The Stress Sources And Coping Styles For The Students Of Higher Vocational Colleges

As a special group, students of Higher Vocational Colleges in Chinahave their own distinctive features. Although students of this group occupy50%of the total number of national college students, little research has beendone on their conditions of psychological health.This paper aims at the research on the pressure confronted by thestudents, their coping ways and the degree of their sports participation.Meanwhile, the paper attempts to investigate how sports participation easesthe pressure confronted by students and better their coping ways. Therefore,effective measures and abundant resources can be provided for both studenteducation and managements, so as to improve the students’ psychologicalhealth.In the study, the "College Students Stress Scale", and "Questionnaire onthe Coping Ways" are used as instruments in the course of investigating.Students from the major of liberal arts (English education), the science (themajor of Electrical Automation), physical education, and students fromminority preparatory classes are chosen as subjects. Random sampling andquestionnaire survey are applied in the statistical analysis. Based on theanalysis, the conclusions are as follows:1. The source of pressure varies with the different majors. Studentsmajoring in sports show less pressure than other majors.2. Boys have more pressure than girls.3. Mongolian college students have both higher pressure and disturbingpressure than the students of Han nationality.4. There is no significant pressure in terms of pressure-feeing betweenurban and rural students as well as between single-child students andnon-single-child students.5. No significant difference is found in terms of coping ways associated with students’ major, sex, nationality, hometown, and whether they are theonly child in the family. But sports participation does show the variation forthe students in Higher Vocational Colleges.Based on the abovementioned conclusions, this study puts forward thecountermeasures, for example how to enrich students’ pressure copingresources, and develop the pressure-coping education, etc.