The Relations Of Irrational Belief, Anger Expression, And Mental Health Of College Students

The purpose of this study was investigated the relations among irrational beliefs, anger expression and mental health. The measure of irrational beliefs was the College Students' Irrational Beliefs Questionnaire, which including four subscales:demandingness, awfulizing, overgeneralization and low frustration tolerance. The measure of expression of anger was the STAXI-2, which including four subscales:anger control-out, anger expression-out, anger control-in and anger expression-in. And the measure of mental health was used the Chinese Mental Health Inventory, including five subscales:emotion experience, self-awareness, relation communication, cognitive ability and adaption.The subjects were 882 college students from four universities of Heilongjiang provience in China. The results were used by t-test, correlation analysis and Amos 16.0 in the test of Measurement Model and Struetural Equation. The major findings of this study were that there were significant differences on the irrational bliefs of college students on gender, coming from the city or county, and single child in family or not, as the same as that of anger expression and mental health; and there was a significant moderating effect of irrational beliefs between anger expression and mental health.Based on the results, the suggestions of the mental health education of college students, psychological counseling and the future research were respectively discussed.