To explore the actual situation of psychological Suzhi and the relationship between psychological Suzhi and school belonging of students in Tibet rural boarding elementary school in China. In this study, 211 students were surveyed with the Pupil’s Psychological Suzhi Scale Simplified Version and the questionnaire of school belonging of Pupil. The results found that (1)Psychological Suzhi scores and dimension scores of ethnic rural boarding elementary school were lower than the national average. In terms of dimension scores, personality quality scored the highest, followed by cognitive quality and adaptive quality. (2) There were differences in psychological Suzhi scores by gender, and no significant differences in the scores of each dimension of psychological Suzhi by gender. There was a significant difference in  in psychological Suzhi scores and the scores of each dimension in terms of grade. (3) Psychological Suzhi , adaptive qualities and personality qualities were remarkable positively correlated with school belonging, and cognitive qualities were not correlated with school belonging. 

Chunni Zhao, Xini Zhao, Caixia Deng. A Research on Psychological Suzhi and Influencing Factors of Elementary School Students from Ethnic Minority Boarding Schools in Rural Tibet, China. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2022) Vol. 5, Issue 13: 26-32. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2022.051306.

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