The Research Of The Mental Health Of Junior School Students

Now that we have entered the 21st century, people are suffering more and more from psychological stresses. Junior middle school students are of no exception. In one's life, the period of junior middle school is a very particular stage, called by many psychologists as the "psychological weaning period". At present,a lot of educational psychologists have paid much attention to the mental health of junior middle school students, and have done lots of relevant research. However, all these researches are done by means of Self-Rating Symptoms, which, to some extent, pays more attention to the students' state of anxieties and is therefore sort of self-limited.On the basis of the research of the mental health of our country's junior school students, making analysis of some appraised basic psychological definitions; the essay investigates the state of mental health of junior school students in China by means of the "Mental Health Test (MHT)". Taking subjects of 300 students from the Affiliated Middle School of Jilin University (coming from Grade One, Grade Two and Grade Three respectively), the test makes assessments in 8 different aspects of their mental health state, i.e., proneness to learning-anxiety, proneness to anxiety towards people, proneness to loneliness, proneness to self-reproaching, proneness to over-sensitiveness, physical symptoms, proneness to terror, and proneness to impulsive action. As the result shows, there are significant differences among students in different grades: the scores of certain mental health factors such as "proneness to learning anxiety" and "proneness to self-reproaching" in Grade Three are significantly higher than those in Grade One and Two. Secondly, between male and female students, there exists significant difference in mental health states. The level of mental health in female students is lower than that of their male schoolmates. The scores of the mental health factors such as "proneness to learning anxiety", "proneness to anxiety towards people", "proneness to loneliness", "proneness to self-reproaching", "physical symptom" and "proneness to horror" in female students are significantly higher than those in male. In another part of our research, we have probed from various angles into the main factors that may affect the mental health of junior middle students. Among them, first of all is the internal factor of biology, such as the inherent genes, inborn traits, gender and age. Inherent factors play quite significant role in diseases such as schizophrenia, maniac depression, personality disorder, and mental retardation. Due to the sexual steroid endocrine and certain biological process, female students in junior middle school period often appear as emotionally impulsive, changeable, unsteady, over-excited, or depressed. And, as the junior middle school students are gradually becoming mature in their sexual development, their vegetative nervous system tend to be unsteady, making their emotions fluctuate very easily. When coming upon certain incidents in life, they are liable to develop neurasthenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hysteria and other mental disorders.Secondly, the external environmental factors can also significantly affect junior middle school students' mental health. These include family environment, primary education, conflicts, frustrations, incidents in life, and the teenagers' subjective personality. In the early stages of an individual's development, if the parents give their children enough care and trust, being encouraging, supportive and active in attitudes, the children will consequently become easier to find trust and sense of security at their initial meetings with other people. Such feelings are helpful in people's smooth communication with others. On the contrary, without care, attendance, trust, encouragement and support from the parents, children will become lonely and helpless; what's worse, it may even lead to the obstruction of interpersonal communication. For example, he or she may find it very difficult...