Rural secondary school students are a vulnerable group for the phenomenon of learned helplessness. Psychological education in secondary schools has flourished in recent year. The students' mental health has improved to some extent including their learned helplessness psychological state. However, due to the functional family environment and their acquired socialization process for rural secondary school students, campus mental health education and counseling measures cannot eliminate them all. It is very relevant to study the learned helplessness phenomenon of rural secondary school students from the perspective of action control style and PSI theory. This paper explores the mechanisms of action control and personality interaction PSI theories on learned helplessness by using questionnaires and field experiments with 420 students from two secondary vocational schools in Guangxi. In the first study, we screened 25 students each in the high learned helplessness with state oriented group (high group) and low learned helplessness with action oriented group (low group) according to the scale administration scores to conduct a three-factor learned helplessness field experiment to examine the mechanism of action control style on learned helplessness. The results indicated that after being induced with the learned helplessness psychological state, the participantsin both the high and the low groups were strongly motivated to complete the follow-up test task. But the high group participants showed negative emotions and negative attributions and the low group participants showed positive emotions and positive attributions during the task. While participants in the high group had a shorter persistence time to complete the task. The participants in the low group performed better and mostly persisted to the end. There was no significant difference in the total performance between the two groups. Action control style had a significant moderating effect on the total task performance and total persistence time for the high group participants but not for the low group participants. The second study examined the relationship between family functioning, action control style, action control strategy and learned helplessness by analyzing the results of the participants' scales. It found that family functioning could significantly and 2 positively predicte learned helplessness. Action control style and action control strategy played a chain mediating role between family functioning and learned helplessness which meaned family functioning could sequentially influence learned helplessness through action control style and action control strategy. This mediating effect is influenced by the individual's self-esteem but the mediating effect of achievement motivation was not significant.
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