The Research On Self-concept Of Mongolian And Han High School Students And Its Relations With Mental Health

Self Concept is the key component of individual personality structure. It is the conceptual awareness and self evaluation of individuals on their own physical, psychological and social attributes. High school students in the period of adolescence are at an important stage during the course of the gradual development and being finally mature of self-concept. The"mind of rebellion"and most of other psychological problems at this stage are related to the development of self-concept, which will affect the behavior, personal attributes, and mental health of these adolescents. Related studies at home and abroad have found out the general self-concept and each specific self-concept component of individuals are all closely correlated with their mental health. Generally speaking, individuals with positive self-concept will make more objective judgment about themselves and enthusiastically take their"self", which will have positive influence on individual's mental health.Self-concept is a complex psychological system and is also the important basis of personality structure. Therefore, self-concept has been one of the most favorable topics of study among related people both at home and abroad, especially among people in the psychological field. By employing the Tennessee Self Concept Scale compiled by William H. Fitts (the third edition, revised by Lin Bangjie of Taiwan) and the standard MHT specially designed for secondary school students in China we carry out a test on 714 high school students and study the self-concept of high school students and its relations with mental health.According to the statistics, we get the conclusion as follows:1,There is a remarkably ethnic difference in self-concept between Mongolian and Han's high school students. Especially, there is a more sharply ethic difference in the aspects as follows: physical self, family self, identity, behavior and total positive.2,There is no remarkably gender difference in self-concept between Mongolian and Han's high school students. However, there is a remarkable difference of self criticism between male and female high school student.3,There is a remarkably class difference in self-concept between Mongolian and Han's high school students. There is a curved trend of development of self-concept. There is an upward trend from the first year to the second year of high school and there is a downward trend from the second year to the third year of high school.4,There is a remarkably ethnic difference in mental health between Mongolian and Han's high school students. Especially, there are differences in aspects as follows: study anxiety, allergy tendency, body symptoms, and self-blame tendency.5,There is a remarkable gender difference in mental health between Mongolian and Han's high school students. There is a remarkable gender difference in body symptoms and phobia tendency. There is more remarkable difference between male and female students in allergy tendency and body symptoms.6,There is a remarkable class difference in mental health between Mongolian and Han's high school students. There is a remarkable class difference in the total positive of mental health and there is a comparatively remarkable class difference in allergy tendency and body symptoms.7,There is a remarkably opposite correlation between total positive and each factor of self-concept and each factor of mental health of Mongolian and Han's high school students.8,Physical self, identity and personal self can be helpful in predicting the mental health of Mongolian and Han's high school students.