A Study On Mental Health And Coping Styles Of Military College Students In Different Grades

Objective: To explore the mental health status and coping styles of the military college students in different grades. Method: A total of 737 students from 8 brigades in 4 grades were selected by the stratified cluster sampling. They were assessed by Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index(PSQI), Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List(ASLEC), Family Environment Scale Chinese version (FES-CV), Egma Minnen av Bardndosnauppforstran??? (EMBU), Coping styles Questionnaire and self-design general living questionnaire, and completed themselves. Results: There were significant diffrences on total score and factor-scores of SCL-90 among four grades except for phobia and depressive factors (F=3.25~ 10.27, p < 0.05~p < 0.01). The factor-score of somatization in military college students was significant higher than national norm of the young, the factor-score of psychosis had no significant diffrence, and the other factor-scroes in military college students were significant lower than national norm of the young (t=-13.456 ~ -3.027,p < 0.01). All factor-scores in military college students were significant lower than national norms of the college students and the armyman (t=-29.570~-4.660, p< 0.01) . The level of mental health status of students from army was significant higher than that of students from senior high school, and there was no significant difference between the students from city and county. The total score and factor-scroes of SCL-90 had no significant differences between the students who were only son and daughter and the students who were not (t=-0.920~-0.489, p > 0.05) . There were significant differences on factor-scores of coping styles among four grades (F=3.10~ 14.78, p<0.05 ~p< 0.01) . There had no significant difference on mature coping style and immature coping style between the students who were only son and daughter and the students who were not < t=-0.381 ■—0.728, p > 0.05) . The immature coping styles of students from senior high school were significant fewer than those of students from army (t=2.88, p< 0.01) . No differences were found on factors of coping styles between students from city and county ( t=-0.452 ~ 0.557 , p > 0.05 ) . The mental health status of the military college students had related to factors of coping style, rearing style of parents, total stress of adolecent life events, interest of profession, uncomfortable of stomache, study pressure, pressure of military training, satisfactory degree of teacher, satisfactory degree of leader,and other factors. Conclusions: The mental health status and coping styles of four grades in the military college students are different. The mental health is related to many factors. Psychological intervention should be carreied according to grades and source of students, thus may reduce the occurce of mental problems.