Research And Analysis On Mental Health Status For Adolescent Athletes In Changchun City

Adolescence is crucial period in psychological development as well as frequent period for psychological problems,especially for the adolescent athletes,they are students in the sports school mostly, whose psychological development are influenced by comprehensive factors.It is well known that healthy psychology is the basis for the students to develop in an all-around way. Influences brought by psychological factors on athletic performance get a growing attention from the expert and the coach. Psychological health conditions of the adolescent athletes will influence directly their future development. Through investigation on psychological heath conditions of adolescent athletes in Changchun City, this article has found the existing problems and analyzed the main influencing factors in order to take specific intervention measures,which can provide basis for improving psychological health conditions of the adolescent athletes.This research adopts group sampling,151 students of different ages are selected randomly from Changchun City Sports School,Jilin Province Sports School, Experimental High School of Jilin Province, and The Eleventh Senior High School of Jilin Province. Apply SCL-90 and a researcher-designed basic conditions survey of the adolescent athletes in Changchun City to the investigation,make comparisons between the norms, gender, ages,sources of students and schools with SPSS software, and make comprehensive analysis on the influencing factors.The results show that the psychological health conditions of the adolescent athlete in Changchun City are less optimistic:21.19% students have moderate psychological problems of some kind. The adolescent athletes of age from 16 to 18 have healthier psychology than that of 13-15.There is significant differences between the adolescent athletes from rural areas and cities in their scoring of each items,the former is apparently higher than the latter. Boy students have healthier psychology than the girl students.They have psychological problems on different items,boy students are mainly on items like bigotry, force, hostility, etc.,but girl students are mainly on sensitive to interpersonal relation, depression, anxiety. The adolescent athletes from harmonious families have healthier psychology than that from non-harmonious families (including single parent family).The adolescent athletes whose parents have higher education level have healthier psychology. Given the higher checkout rate of psychological problems among the adolescent athletes,their psychological health conditions are not so optimistic.The influencing factors include their own factors and that from families, schools as well as the society. Schools and the society shall give them more attentions to prevent them generating more serious psychological problems and occurring of bad results.