Self-Supporting Personality and Practical Problem Solving

Abstract

In order to explore the effect of self-supporting personality on the quality of practical problem solving,practical problem solving interviewing was administered on 30 college students who were grouped as personal selfsupporting /interpersonal self-supporting high group and low group.The results showed that significant differences between personal self-supporting /interpersonal self-supporting high group and low group were found in the qualities of practical problem solving.Then the Self-Supporting Personality Scale of Adolescent Students(SSPS-AS)and Everyday Problem Solving Questionnaire were administered on 101 validity subjects.The results showed that there were significant correlations between most dimensions of self-supporting personality and abilities of practical problem solving.Some dimensions of self-supporting personality were predictive variables for abilities of practical problem solving.It could be concluded that the level of self-supporting personality could affect the quality of practical problem solving and the self-supporting personality refer to ability factors of practical problem solving.In addition,the characteristics and mechanism of this effect should be studied in future.