How To Handle Your Challenges ?

Positive thinking is a kind of positive response to challenges.Training students to handle multiple challenges has great significance for the development of physical and mental health of students.Emotion Regulation and subjective Well-Being,as the two key factors,affecting the development of students’positive thinking.Therefore,exploring their mechanism to positive thinking,which would help the students to understand their own emotional regulation process as well as instruct teachers to enhance students’ ability.This study aims to investigate the internal relationship among students’ emotion regulation strategy,subjective Well-being and positive thinking as well as to understand the similarities and differences between different types of students.A questionnaire survey was conducted in this study among 504 students from different study period--middle school,high school and university.The conclusions of this study are as follows:Firstly,the development of the adaptive strategies and maladaptive strategies is on synchronization,both have a significant reduction in high school,indicating that high school is the key period for the development of students’emotional regulation.After entering the University,the utilization of maladaptive strategies of boys significantly decreased,while the girls increased significantly,indicating the importance of college girls’ emotional regulation guidance.Secondly,different gender and grade had no significant difference in subjective Well-Being,however different personality and peer relationship have significant differences in subjective Well-Being that should be concerned about the psychological health problems of "the neuroticism" and "the excluded students".Thirdly,The positive thinking of college students is significantly reduced,which means that college students will face more realistic challenges.The influence of peer relationship on students’ positive thinking decrease with the study period increase,which indicates that peer support is of great significance to handle challenges.Fourthly,the more students tend to use adaptive strategies,the better development of their subjective Well-being and positive thinking.However,more inclined to use maladaptive strategies would not have such influence.It shows that the strategies students regulate their emotions is related to their mental health.Fifthly,Subjective Well-Being plays a moderating role in the relationship between emotion regulation strategies and positive thinking.When students are in high sense of happiness,no matter what strategies can promote the positive thinking;but when students are in low sense of happiness,the use of adaptive strategies has great help to handle challenges;the use of maladaptive strategies would make trouble worse.It is very important for the students with low happiness to choose the appropriate way to deal with the difficulties.Taking all these conclusions into account,this study put forward the following countermeasures and suggestions:firstly,promote students’ understanding of their own emotions,guide them to rational use of emotional regulation strategy;secondly,pay attention to the characteristics of students’ emotion regulation,help them to establish its ability to deal with the challenges;finally,focus on the cultivation of students ability to cope with the challenges of students in low sense of happiness.Encourage them to use adaptive strategy to meet the challenges,and avoid the use of maladaptive strategies.