The Research On The Relationships Of Resilience, Cognitive Appraisal And Stress Distress Of University Students

Resilience is described as a kind of steady and positive mentalquality which can help individuals to buffer or resist the negativeeffects which are induced by stress, crisis or trauma, and promote theiradjustment and thriving. There are fruitful researches proved the factthat positive effect of resilience on individual’s mental health.However, concerning the mechanisms, there is still some uncertain field.Therefore, this paper adopted the perspective of cognitive appraisal,exploring the mechanism of resiliency through cognitive appraisal to keepmental health.We invited614university students in a Harbin university. The purposeof this study was investigating the level and state of resilience andstress distress in university student sample, and exploring therelationship among resilience, cognitive appraisal (and subsidiarydimensionalities) and stress distress.The following part is the conclusions of this research:1. Resilience of university students was in a good condition. Therewas significant difference in Gender, male students reported moreresilience than female students in significant level. There wasno significant difference in major, the source place, seniorityamong brother and sisters, grade.2. Stress distress of university students was in a good condition.Male students reported more stress distress than female studentsin a significant level. There was a significant difference in Gradeand there was no significant difference in Major, the Source Place,Seniority among Brother and Sisters.3. Resilience significant negatively correlated with stressdistress，resilience could significant predict stress distress.Resilience significant positively correlated with cognitiveappraisal，resilience could significant predict cognitiveappraisal.4. Cognitive appraisal significant positively correlated with stress distress，Cognitive appraisal could significant predict stressdistress.5. The mediator effect test showed that cognitive appraisal was apartial mediator between resilience and stress distress.