On The Relationship Among The Stressors, Coping Styles And Mental Health Of Higher Professional Education Students

It is very important to understand the stressors and common coping styles of higher professional education students (HPE students), and the relationship between them and mental health, and thus to probe into the elements that influence the mental health of HPE students. This can provide help and evidence to develop the mental health education and assistance for the HPE students.This research has designed "the Scale of Stressors of the HPE students " in order to investigate the major stressors faced by the HPE students. According to the main mental characteristics and life experience of the HPE students, this scale divides the stressors the HPE students encounter into five aspects, namely study, life and social life, family, sexual physiology and mentality, and employment. The interior agreement coefficient of the scale is between 0.582 and 0.897, the reassessment reliability coefficient is between 0.590 and 0.786, the pragmatic validity is 0.565, the construct validity is between 0.300 and 0.836, and most of the questions have good discrimination ability. This study also uses "the Questionnaire on the Coping Styles" to examine the main coping styles when the HPE students are faced by stressors, and "the Scale of Self-evaluation on SCL-90 Symptoms" to study the mental health condition of the HPE students. Both questionnaires are filled out by the students themselves. The approach of sampling in stratification within whole groups is adopted to investigate 420 subjects who include freshmen, sophomores and juniors majoring secretary, practical skills and economics in three higher professional education colleges. All the data are entered and statistically analyzed by means of SPSS8.0.The conclusions of this study include: 1. "The Scale of Stressor for the HPE students " designed by us has fairly good reliability and validity and meets thedemands of psychological survey. 2. The relationship among stressors, coping styles and mental health is close and the relationship coefficient is very high. 3.The major stressors facing the HPE students are employment, study, life and social life. Life and social life poses the greatest impact on the mental health of the students. 4. The main coping styles the HPE students adopt when facing the stressors are problem solving and help seeking. 5. In order to maintain the mental health of the HPE students, we should strengthen the mental health education and training, and at the same time be more efficient in controlling the stressors.