| This study has been conducted at a secondary school in Taiyuan city, Shanxi province, China. The subject include of 407 students in grade 7 and grade 8, aged 8-12, who were sampled by stratified cluster sampling. The research aimed to set up a way to help student improve the level of their mental health by social psychology skill and study skill education.The study consists mainly of questionnaires and intervention experiments. Data analyses were performed through FoxBASE data stock, SPSS and SAS software.The major results are as follows:1.There are a few problems in mental health of students in middle school as well as bringing-up style of their parents. The requirements of mental health education for students and bringing-up style consultation for their parents are urgent. Which are as follows:(1) Actualities of mental health of middle school students, especially those who mark low scores in their study, are unsatisfied. Mental health score, attitudes toward themselves, and attitudes toward their life are poor. Unsatisfied self-feeling, undesirable self-attitude, and problem behavior exist prevalently. Actualities of their interpersonal are undesirable. Problems in students who mark low scores in their study are more serious.(2) The results of baseline survey indicate that the influence factors of middle school students' mental health areas follows:Parents' bringing-up style, scores in their study, sex, grade, and parents' profession, these factors all can influence students' mental health, especially parents' bringing-up style and scores in their study.(3) Actualities of parents' bringing-up style is unsatisfied. Undesirable bringing-up style happens prevalently. There are 48 items of which accident rate more than 5 percent out of 58 in father bringing-up style questionnaire, 45 items of which accident rate more than 5 percent out of 58 in mother bringing-up style questionnaire.2.The results indicate that the contents of the intervention experiments are suitable. The contents are as follows:(1) Students' social psychology skill and study skill education. This program includes 8 parts: being self-confident and responsible, establish favorable interpersonal, proper study motive and be interested in what being studied, supervise your study by yourself, capability and proper method in study, be persevering and creative, skill in different course's study and be healthy in emotion.(2) Parents' bringing-up style consultation. There are 4 parts in this program: basic knowledge of adolescence mental health, arts in family education, study consultation in family and establish favorable relationship between children and parents.3. The results demonstrate that the intervention methods of the study are appropriate, which are as follows:(1) Students Social psychological skill and study skill education. Researcher gave lessons to student intervention group and let the control group be. The main teach methods are role-play, competence, playing game, discussion, debating, and telling story and example analysis. Give students opportunities as much as possible to involve in activities in class. The lessons were given once a week (90 minutes per course), took 8 weeks and totally 8 courses. Individual consultation was performed whenever students required for.(2) Parents' bringing-up style consultation. Booklets named "parents handbook" was used to give parents' bringing-up style consultation.4. The results of the intervention illustrate that the effectiveness of the program is significant. The main results are as follows:(1) The mental health level of students in intervention group was improved contrasts to control group.After intervention, the mean score of the attitude to family and parents, the mean score of the attitude toward themselves, and the total mean score of the mental health questionnaire of tested group catch up with that of the two control groups. Furthermore, the scores of the two control groups decreased signific... |
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