Study On The Relationship Between Personal Growth Initiative, Self-concept And Depression Of University Students

According to the prediction of WTO,depression will become the second killer right after heart disease around the world by the time of 2020. Since a great number of university student is suffering from depression,we can not ignore this problem.Nowadays,most depression theories are negative. Contrary to the negativity focus of previous theories, positive psychology attempts to construct a "positive"explanation on depression, personal growth initiative(PGI) is a concept of positive psychology.It’s a kind of ability which can be approved. So it can be used in intervention.The previous research suggest that personal growth initiative associate with depression.But no one tell the reasons. So the purpose of this research want to find the reasons.This study use university students as subjects,exploring the relationship between PGI depression and self-concept.This study chose 240 university students as subjects,using Self Rating Depression Scale (SDS),the Personal Growth Initiative Scale-II(PGIS-II) and University students Self-concept Scale.The result showed that,(1)The university students’ personal growth initiative depression and self-concept has a significant relationship;(2)self-concept plays a partial relationship with personal growth initiative and depression.