大学生の卒業論文作成時の自己認知、 および卒業論文作成状況に対する認知に関する実証的検討 : 卒業論文作成によって生じるストレスの側面から

Abstract

This study investigates how students perceive self and the circumstances when writing a graduation thesis, and also the relationship between positive cognitions and mental health. Thirty-one university students who were writing graduation theses were administered a questionnaire six months before the deadline and again one month before it. Students perceived themselves more emotionally unbalanced and more incapable, but more positive about their attitudes concerning their graduation theses than their classmates did. To perceive themselves more optimistic, strong-willed, and emotionally balanced was negatively correlated with feelings of depression in writing a graduation thesis. With regard to cognition about circumstances, they were more aware of the deadline and the progress of the graduation thesis one month before the deadline, and such awareness correlated with feelings of depression. From the analysis of their free descriptions, both enjoyment and suffering in writing a graduation thesis were abstract six months before the deadline, and they got both enjoyment and suffering in the concrete process of writing a graduation thesis and giving meaning to the results of their research one month before the deadline. The enjoyment and suffering in writing a graduation thesis were inextricably linked with each other.