Students' Self-centered, Coping Style And Mental Health Relationship Study

In the period of middle school, an individual develops rapidly in all aspects. It is also a period in which an individual grows from juvenility to maturity. The state of an individual's mental health may affect and even decide his after life. The level of the students' egocentrism and the kind of coping styles the students adopt are directly related to their mental health. So, it is significant to study middle school students' egocentrism, coping styles and the affection to middle school students' mental health.Based on overviews of former research, the Imaginary Audience Scale and the Personal Fable Scale revised by Chenminghui, the Coping Style Scale complied by Xiaojihua and the SCL-90 were used to investigate 1022 middle school students. The study explored the middle school students' egocentrism, coping styles and the affection to middle school students' mental health. The results show:1. The egocentrism development tendency of middle school students presents a curve model. Egocentrism of middle school students develops rapidly in junior middle school stage, peaked at the age of 15. Although there are some ups and downs since then, but the development of egocentrism is relatively stable. There are no significant differences concerning the egocentrism of middle school students on gender. With regard to superior personal uniqueness, there are significant differences between urban and rural students. Concerning the social conjunction imaginary audience, unknown personal uniqueness and superior personal uniqueness, there are significant differences between only child and siblings.2. Middle school students in stressful situation mainly adopt problem-resolution and help-seeking styles to cope, which are positive coping styles. Concerning the autopunction, rationalization, help-seeking and fantasy coping styles of middle school students, there are significant differences on grade. Also, there are significant differences on gender concerning autopunction, help-seeking and rationalization. In addition, it shows that famale students use help-seeking coping style more often than male students.3. Middle school students have mild mental health problems in general. According to the descending order, they are obessive symptoms, interpersonal relation sensitivity, hostility, paranoid and depression. There are significant differences concerning the mental health state of middle school students with regard to grade and gender. In detail, eight grade students' mental health state is best, but seven grade worst. In addtion, famale students' mental health state is better than that of male students.4. There is significant correlation between egocentrism and coping styles of middle school students, but imaginary audience and personal fable have reverse correlation with different factors of coping styles. Egocentrism can obviously predict the autopunction, problem-resolution and fantasy coping styles of middle shcool students. 5. There is significant correlation between egocentrism and mental health of middle school students. Egocentrism has obvious predictive effect on interpersonal relation sensitivity, obessive symptoms, mental health total state and depression.6. There is significant correlation between coping styles and mental health of middle school students. Coping styles can obviously predict mental health of middle school students. Autopunction, problem-resolution and fantasy coping styles have especially significant predictive effect on mental health of middle school students.According to the results, two pieces of advice are proposed:1. Enhance the sense of ownership and self-confidence of middle school students and guide the sound development of their egocentrism.2. Developing the middle school students' positive coping styles and overcoming their negative coping styles to promote the level of the students'mental health.