"Face" Stressors And Coping Strategies Among Androgynous College Students

In1940s, Chinese and international researchers studied on the definition andfunction of "face". However, there is little evidence to support the researches, especiallyon face stressor and how people coping with it. This paper aims to study androgynouscollege students’ opinions and coping strategies on face stressors. From the perspectiveof cultural psychology and cross-cultural psychology, and through the researchparadigm of cultural-priming, this paper will study Androgynous students’ behaviorsand coping strategies in different cultural environments. The research methods areliterature review and questionnaires from college students in Chengdu. This study willselect androgynous students based on "BSRI", and then investigate their behaviors andface stressors by three questionnaires:"college students face pressure event table""advance to avoid no face""save face".The studies found that:（1）Androgynous college students who come from different background havedifferent needs of face and response differently.（2）No matter what kind of gender culture priming is, the male students gethigher face stress scores （more than3.5） and there is a significant difference in facepressure among male students from different cultures. From the dimension of facepressure event source, there is no significant difference in the dimension of conduct,moral, law and sexual morality."status，ability "" dignity, behavior, honor" do not havesignificant differences; The top face pressure of male students are: identity and ability.gender culture started, the female students face stress scores were higher （greater than3.5）and female students in different cultures face started to feel the pressure of thematerial has a significant difference, face pressure from an event source dimensionpoint of view, conduct, ethical, legal and capacity, identity dimension does not havesignificant differences, sexual morality, honor, dignity, behavioral mistakes havesignificant differences.（3）Compare with female cultural-priming, the change of male students face stressorsstructures. No matter what kind of cultural priming is, male or female, the structure of female student s’ face pressure is the same. The only difference is the sensitivity of facepressure.（4）When male students face stressful events, the frequent coping strategies are "reviewing improvement" and "Compensation sex". On the other hand, female collegestudents will’ obey the rules," and " look for support or escape."...