The Empirical Research On College Students' Psychological Violence

Psychological violence refers to make psychological harm to others by means of the non-physical contact. Psychological violence have very important implications to the mental health of the individual. Through the study of psychological violence in college, we can not only expand the field of applied psychology research, but also for provide the basis for the specific mental health education to the university students.In this study, based on literature review, it make a recearch of psychological violence from 83 college students by the way of half open questionnaire at first ;then refer to the theory of psychological violence to make the theoretical concept of psychological violence. It prepare the psychological violence's questionnaire with good reliability and validity,then make a survey of 383 college students with the questionnaire,in order to study their characteristics of psychological violence.In order to make clear of the relationship between psychological violence and mental health 318 college students were studied. In the end of this paper,it make a face to face interview to the two students respectively had the high and low levels of psychological violence questionnaire scores,to reach the following conclusions:1) Psychological violence is a multi-dimensional systems, including insult isolated out, threat, force, embezzlement, sexual harassment, invasive of privacy and rumors eight factors.2) Psychological injury caused by psychological violence is in the middle level. There are significant differences between good and bad students, liberal arts and science,independent body or not,gender and achievement, major and achievement, major and independent body or not,have the combined effect to psychological violence in college students.3) There is a significant negative correlation between mental health and psychological violence. Psychological violence have a prediction on the mental health.4) The study of psychological violence in college students's questionnaire is with good reliability and validity.In conclusion, this study used a variety of methods, to multi-anglely inspect the structure of psychological violence and the relationship between psychological violence and mental health,that provide some guidance value to mental health education,but its production and mechanism is pending further research.