The Relations Among Adolescents’ Life Events, Resilience And School Adaptation

This research aimed to examine the relation among adolescents’ life events,resilience and school adjustment with longitudinal design.Four hundred and seventy adolescents of three junior high schools,in the city of Suzhou,Jiangsu province,were followed up for two years.Adolescents reported stressful life events they had experienced on the Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List,and their resilience on the Resilience Scale for Chinese Adolescents,when they were in grade 7,8,and 9,respectively.Teachers were asked to rate adolescents’ school adaptation on a revised version of Teacher-Child Rating Scale.The results were as follows:1.The level of adolescents’ life events was at a low level,and their stress mainly came from personal relationships and learning problems.The life events’ level of adolescents in Grade nine was significantly higher than Grade seven and Grade eight.Overall,the level of adolescents’ resilience was at a high level,whereas their school adjustment was at a moderate level,and their learning problems were obvious;2.Life events was negatively correlated with adolescent’s resilience and competence,and positively correlated with externalizing problems,internalizing problems and learning problems;Adolescents’ resilience was negatively correlated with learning problems,externalizing problems,internalizing problems,and positively correlated with competence;3.Adolescents’ resilience had unidirectional effect on the occurrence of life events,not the contrary;Adolescents,resilience had unidirectional effect on their school adaptation.The results of this research demonstrated that:1.Adolescents’life event,resilience and school adaptation were significantly associated.2.Adolescents’ resilience relieved the level of life events and improved school adaptation.3.Resilience which was in the relation between life events and school adaptation was not only a mediating effect but also a moderating effect.