The Relationship Among Freshmen's Mental Health, Self-esteem And Class Interpersonal Relationship

Following Chinese universities and colleges enlarge the scale of student recruitment, the number of students increases sharply. So people begin paying much more attention on how to improve students'knowledge and mental health. There are few reports about the relationship among mental health, self-esteem and class interpersonal relationship of freshmen. And sometimes the opinions of these reports are contradictious. The research of their relationship can improve the mental health of the freshmen. During the study we think that self-esteem can mediate class interpersonal relationship and mental health as a third variable. It will help us better understand the mechanisms of self-esteem and class interpersonal relationship to mental health.We chose 560 freshmen of Jinan University as participants for this study. The participants responded to the CCSMHS, SES and Interpersonal Relationship Inventory. We examined the relationship between self-esteem and mental health, and also the relationship between class interpersonal relationship and mental health. We want to know the role of self-esteem to mental health via class interpersonal relationship. We draw the following conclusions:1. The mental health of freshmen is better than the standard of university students in general, and significant differences exist in many factors.2. Some significant differences exist in different sexes, different areas, singleton or non-singleton students, different subjects and family incomes. Family incomes play an more important role to freshmen's mental health.3. The self-esteem of freshmen and interpersonal relationship of class show no significant differences on sex, singleton and non-singleton, areas from cities or countryside's, majors, but show significant differences on family income.4. Freshmen with different levels of self-esteem and class interpersonal relationship have different levels of mental health. 5. Self-esteem, interpersonal relationship of class show significant correlation with some factors of mental health. Denial-oneself can mediate the relationship between class interpersonal relationship and some factors of mental health. The ability of oneself can mediate the relationship between class interpersonal relationship and compulsion.