Municipal College Students In The Mental Health And Coping Styles And Their Relationships

In recent years, it develops rapidly that the tertiary institution in our country are recruiting more and more students. No doubt that the appearance of expanded recruitment, high tuition fees, job-choosing of one's own accordance, mutual selection and the more serious pressure of finding jobs will have impacts on the mentality of college students. The college new comers are undergoing the transformation from middle school life to college life .the shift of school environments, change of studying conditions and methods need for interpersonal communications and lack of communicative skills , etc ,can easily cause uncomfortableness among students ,thus arises mental problems. According to some studies formerly, the mental health condition of the college freshmen in our country is far from optimistic, so it's necessary for the local college to pay more attention to the freshmen's mental health. And furthermore , to focus on the elements that affect their mental heath .presently, the relevant studies both at home and abroad show that the coping style is an important intermediate element between stress and mental health and will have a great impact on the mental health, therefore, we should also think highly of the study on coping style. As a local tertiary institution ,there exists a gap between local school and the provincial or subordinate school in the idea of running a school, the source ,quality and graduating allocation of students and it is in a disadvantaged position .all this will undoubtedly influence their mental health. Under this circumstance ,the pressure on the local college students becomes correspondingly larger and larger ,and their mental health should earn more focus. Hence ,in this investigation ,we dip into the local college freshmen's mental health ,coping style and its mutual relationship ,with its main aim to learn about the local college students' mental health condition, the characteristics of coping style and also its correlation more clearly ,accurately and scientifically and to provide a strong basis for the mental health education of local college students.The study takes the form of questionnaire, testing 1232 college newcomers from four local universities in Shan Dong province ,and uses "SCL-90"and the "coping style questionnaire" as an instrument to test local college newcomers'(grade 2004)mental health, coping style and its correlation. The conclusion are as follows:1. The number of freshmen with mental problems in local universities is large, approximately taking up 21.8 % of the whole number and the most obvious mental problems are obsessive-compulsve and interpersonal sensitivity.2. The mental health of freshmen is affected by a lot of elements, such as sex, only child or non-only child , single parent family or normal family ,previous years graduates or this year's graduates, country students or urban students, rich students or poverty-striken students.3. The coping style of local college freshmen are becoming mature. They tend to adopt ways of problem-solving and help-seeking under difficult circumstances. The choose of coping style is also affected by those elements- sex, only child or non-only child , single parent family or normal family .previous years graduates or this year's graduates, country students or urban students, rich students or poverty-striken...