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

Zhou Yongkang; Zeng Weixi; Hu Yalin; Wang Hui

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

Zhou Yongkang, Zeng Weixi, Hu Yalin, Wang Hui

Published in American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 2, Issue 6)

Received: 15 December 2013 Published: 10 January 2014

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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.

Published in	American Journal of Applied Psychology (Volume 2, Issue 6)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajap.20130206.15
Page(s)	94-100
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College Student, Role Identity, Role Adaptation, Role Burnout, Role Contradiction

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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

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

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

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

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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