The Researches On Relationships Between Counterfactual Thinking And Mental Health Of Restudy Students

Counterfactual thinking is a kind of advanced way of cognition,and a kind of common psychological phenomenon of daily life.It refers to our thinking about what has happened in the past, we often builded other possible to define the established results.After counterfactual thinking concept was put forward,most of the scholars devoted to study the concept itself, cognitive mechanisms and its relationship with regret, rejoice etc. in recent years, some scholars began to distract attention to study the relationship between counterfactual thinking with positive psychology. On the basis of previous studies, this study investigation 550 restudy students and senior students of High School, using the self-report method and questionnaire investigation, an trying to discuss the the relationship between counterfactual thinking direction,emotion and mental health. The results of the study are as follows:(1) In the spontaneous state, the senior students have significant differences in grade and household of the direction of counterfactual thinking. The restudy students favours upward direction more than the senior students. Rural registered permanent residence of students take more upward direction of counterfactual thinking than the city registered permanent residence of the student. In the induced state, counterfactual thinking directionshowed a significant difference in grade, the restudy students tend to take more upward direction of counterfactual thinking than the senior students.(2)There are pairwise correlations among the direction of counterfactual thinking, mood and mental health. When the participants taking more upward counterfactual thinking,they will experience more negative emotions, and their psychological health level is low. When the participants taking more downward counterfactual thinking, they will experience more positive emotions, and the psychological health level is better.(3)Emotion is a mediator partly in the relationship between counterfactual thinking direction and mental health. The counterfactual thinking direction can affect metal health level by its affection to emotion...