Research On Relations Among University Students' Self-esteem, Achievement Motivation, Locus Of Control And Mental Health

The mental health of university students and their education of that isbeing paid attention to by schools, families, countries and society. Mental health is combined results of physical, psychological and social factors. The impact of Social and psychological factors on the mental health is a more complicated process, the individual's mental health relates not only to the strength of psycho-social stimulation, and also to the regulation and impact of individual psychological factors. This research is on the relationship of self-esteem, achievement motivation, locus of control and mental health among university students. This study used questionnaires which have been finished by 404 university students and make thefollowing major conclusions:1. Mental health of students on the variables of nationalities, arts or sciences, students sources has no significant differences in addition to on some individual factors .On the gender variable, male college studentsscore higher than female students. On the Variable in the year, the high-grade students in addition to obsessive-compulsive disorder,paranoid and interpersonal sensitivity factors score significantly higher than that of low-grade students. 2. Students self-esteem and achievement motivation, locus of control, the motivation of pursuiting success and the motivation of avoidingfailure on the nation, grades variable has no significant differences. Self-esteem and achievement motivation and the motivation of pursuitingsuccess of female students scored significantly higher than that of male college students. Self-esteem and the motivation of avoiding failure ofstudents from rural areas scores higher than that of university students from the city.3. SCL-90 score points of the students from the high self-esteem score significantly higher than students from low self-esteem on interpersonal sensitivity, paranoia factors, the other factor-there was no significant difference. The students of high achievement motivation score obviouslyhigher than those of low achievement. The students of high locus of control score significantly higher than the students of low locus of control.4. Self-esteem and mental health in addition to several factors and total score, showed significant positive correlation. Achievement motivation and mental health show significant positive correlation. The motivation of pursuiting success and mental health had no significant correlation, the motivation of avoiding failure and mental health show negatively correlated; Locus of control and mental health, in addition to terrorist factor are positively correlated. 5. On the dependent variable of mental health total scores three variables into the regression equation, a total of three variables can explain 27.3 percent of the variance, they are self-esteem scores and the motivation of avoiding failure the locus of control. At the same time ,self-esteem and achievement motivation, the pursuit of success and avoid failure, the locus of control factors as variables, all other factors were also done a regression analysis showed that almost all these variables into the regression equation.6. The path analysis on the self-esteem and achievement motivation, locus of control and mental health among college students, the conclusion is: on Mental Health (total), direct effect of factors are self-esteem, locus of control, achievement motivation and the motivation to succeed . Achievement motivation explains the interpretation of the mental health the largest, followed by the successful pursuit of motivation, self-esteem,the last is the locus of control. The pursuit of success through self-motivation, achievement motivation, the motivation to avoid failure indirectly effects the mental health of college students. The motive to avoid failure indirectly effect through achievement motivation, self-esteem. Achievement motivation through the locus of control indirectly effects college students mental health; The motivation of avoiding failure are not directly forecast the mental health.Generally speaking, that college students'self-esteem, locus of control, achievement motivation are closely linked with mental health of college students, the various factors don't just separately affect mental health, and there are interaction effects, achievement motivation is the core variable, Self-esteem and locus of control through it impact on mental health further.