Abstract:

This study focuses on 1) studying the characteristics of teenage students’ daily stressful life events, 2) examining how the occurrence of stressful events influences teenagers’ social adjustment, 3) elucidating the role of social problem-solving ability in mediating the relationship between stressful life events and social adjustment of teenage students. A sample of teenage students (n = 2157) from Beijing, Harbin, Xi’an, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Kunming participated in the study. The self-report measurements including 1) Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist-Revised, 2) Adolescent Social Adjustment Assessment Scale, 3) Social Problem-Solving Ability Inventory were administered to the teenage students. The daily stressful life events of teenage students are mainly embodied by their academic stress and interpersonal conflicts with their peers. In general, girls undergo more negative life events than boys (p ＜ 0.001), so as the students of low level comparing to those of high level (p ＜ 0.001). Daily stressful life events significantly and positively predict teenage students’ negative social adjustment (p ＜ 0.001), and negatively predict their positive social adjustment (p ＜ 0.001). Moreover, social problem-solving ability mediates the effect of daily stressful life events on teenage students’ social adjustment, especially for the dimension of problem approaching and problem avoidance (p ＜ 0.001). A further structure equation modeling analysis reveals that social problem-solving ability partially mediates the relationship between stressful life events and social adjustment. Furthermore, the occurrence of negative life events gradually increases during the period from junior to senior high school, and girls undergo more negative life events than boys. Moreover, daily stressful life events significantly predict teenagers’ social adjustment, and this relationship is partially mediated by students’ social problem-solving ability.

Key words: daily stressful life events, social adjustment, social problem-solving ability

摘要：

采用问卷法，对2157名中学生日常生活事件的特点，及其与社会适应、社会问题解决能力的关系进行研究。结果发现：（1）学业压力与人际冲突是中学生所遇到的最主要的日常生活事件，低年级经历的事件显著少于高年级，女生经历的事件显著少于男生；（2）中学生日常生活事件显著负向预测积极适应，显著正向预测消极适应；（3）社会问题解决能力在日常生活事件和社会适应之间起到部分中介作用，其中问题趋近、问题回避的作用尤其突出。

关键词: 日常生活事件, 社会适应, 社会问题解决能力