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Empirical Research on College Student’s Role Identity Status in China

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Abstract

“College Student” is such a role that plenty of people once played, now are playing or will play in China. College students’ positive identity of the role will help them develop well at this special stage. The definition of college students’ role identity in the research is the cognitive orientation, emotive experience and behavioral reaction of college students to the student role they are playing. Based on the open-questionnaire investigation, the paper analyzed three status of college student’s role identity by factor analysis technique: role adaptation, and role burnout and role contradiction. The paper also analyzed the difference on the three role identification status based on gender, birthplace, major, grade and other variables and the reason for the variance.

DOI 10.11648/j.ajap.20130206.15
Published in American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 2, Issue 6, November 2013)
Page(s) 94-100
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Keywords

College Student, Role Identity, Role Adaptation, Role Burnout, Role Contradiction

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  • School of Culture and Social Development Studies, Southwest University, Beibei Chongqing, China

  • School of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China

  • School of Culture and Social Development Studies, Southwest University, Beibei Chongqing, China

  • School of Culture and Social Development Studies, Southwest University, Beibei Chongqing, China

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    Zhou Yongkang; Zeng Weixi; Hu Yalin; Wang Hui. Empirical Research on College Student’s Role Identity Status in China. Am. J. Appl. Psychol. 2014, 2(6), 94-100. doi: 10.11648/j.ajap.20130206.15

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    Zhou Yongkang, Zeng Weixi, Hu Yalin, Wang Hui. Empirical Research on College Student’s Role Identity Status in China. Am J Appl Psychol. 2014;2(6):94-100. doi: 10.11648/j.ajap.20130206.15

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