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The Survey And Educational Countermeasures On The Psychological Distress Of Students In University

Posted on:2013-01-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J M WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330374976821Subject:Higher Education
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Psychological distress refers to the psychological state of the individual in the process of daily life, due to internal and external reasons in a given period of anxiety and worry, confusion and doubts, deep depression and other adverse reactions. Psychological distress itself is not pathological reaction; it is a cognitive conflict any person may appear in a certain period of life, mood irritability, and experience uncomfortable psychological reactions. It can be emotional; it may be relationships, or academic work, doing things and so many other aspects of discomfort feelings. Compared to mental disorders and mental illness, individual psychological distress is often manifested in a slight deviation from the normal state of mind mild psychological problems, and it does not constitute a recognizable clinical syndrome, generally identified by the initiative, self-adaptation or active seek the help of others out of trouble, to be resolved. However, the evolution of any severe psychological problems have accumulated by the "simple" and the causes by "frequent", psychological distress is the most fundamental cause of all the more serious psychological problems. Psychological distress tend to make individuals feel pain, deep experience to the tense, passive, confused, unhappy and other inner conflicts psychological feelings. Recurrent psychological distress will inevitably lead to individual depression, listlessness, mental balance; mental disorders, mental illness, as well as psychological crisis will be accompanied by mental illness as well as psychological crisis.College students aged18-23years old belongs to the young or medium-term. Faced with pressures from all aspects of society, schools, environmental and personal, a considerable portion of students are often at a loss, showing depression, loss and loss, often nameless trouble troubled or restless due to the fear of unprovoked, and some even lead to psychological breakdown, schizophrenia, and personality dislocation. Although the proportion of this part of the students in the college students is not large, but according to relevant statistics, they show that this ratio is a clear upward trend in recent years. The survey done by Xiao Zhengjun, Beijing College Students’ Psychological Quality Education Research Group, found that:5220samples were extracted in23universities in Beijing, in accordance with the school-level category, the proportion of men and women of different grades and different professional survey obtained23.2%of the students to varying degrees of psychological distress, girls ratio(17.34%) than boys (16.07%); low grade worse than high school, first year troubled by the situation of the most prominent of17.56%; poor rural students less to urban students is19%. Therefore, attention to the psychological distress of college students and solutions, and paying attentiion to explore and research college students increasingly serious and widespread psychological problems are basic move from the source to solve.Students’ psychological distress and the resulting behavior problems have attracted the attention of more and more researchers, becoming the hot issue of society as a whole. Researchs on the psychological distress of university students have achieved certain results, but the psychological distress of the students did not give a lot of research with the scientific classifications and definitions, there is no scientific scale measurement and analysis system. In this paper, with the selection of relatively high reliability and validity of students’ psychological distress scale and college students personality health questionnaire as a test tool, in order to understand the relationship between psychological distress and mental health of college students. This study, using a convenience sample, selects410undergraduate college students as subjects in our university,400questionnaires returned, removed invalid questionnaires,380questionnaires were paid-up, the efficiency of92.68%. Valid questionnaires are processed through the SPSS data analysis, collation and presentation.On College Students’ Psychological distress, mental health survey analysis and correlation are discussed, drawing the following several conclusions:1. Somatization, low self-esteem, paranoia, social withdrawal, social attack, psychological score higher than the national norm, and the difference was statistically significant, reaching a significant level (P<0.001), while anxiety, depression,compulsion, dependence and impulsivity factor score is less than the national norm, and the difference was statistically different (P<0.001). Independent School students’somatization, anxiety, low self-esteem scores were significantly higher than the general undergraduate school students’score (P<0.05). Girls’somatization and anxiety score was significantly higher than boys (p<0.05), and boys in sexual psychology, mental illness score was significantly higher than girls (P<0.05). Students of liberal arts in the nature of psychological distress score was significantly higher than the science class students (P<0.05). Non-one-child social withdrawal and psychological factor scores were significantly higher than the one-child (P<0.05). By analysis of variance found that each grade in social attack, sexual psychology and psychiatry have significant sex difference (P<0.05), and other factors there is no difference. Learned after the inspection, second and fourth grades’social attack score higher than first grade, fourth grade sexual psychological score higher than third grade, and fourth grade psychosis score significantly higher than the first, second, and third grade.2. More than half (59.7%) students have mental health problems, including26.3%of the students need to focus on,59.7percent of the students need to pay close attention to. Independent school students UPI score significantly higher than the general undergraduate school students (P<0.0001), girls were significantly higher than boys (P <0.01), non-student leaders were significantly (P<0.01) higher than the student leaders. By the variance of the different grades UPI score analysis, there were significant differences in the different grades average (F=3.781, P<0.05). Post hoc tests confirmed that the second grade is higher than the fourth grade and third grade is higher than the fourth grade.3. Psychological distress in different mental health groups, there are very significant differences (P<0.0001). After post hoc test, the distress factor scores in the three groups are:the first category>second category>third category, indicating that psychological distress, the higher the score, the higher the mental health score. The various factors of students psychological distress and UPI score was positive correlation (P<0.001).4. Regression analysis showed that the best predictive power of the factors is "anxiety" level, and explaining48.2%, followed by the order of "inferiority","Independent School or not","sexual psychological","dependent","cadres or not,explaining respectively3.3%,2.5%,0.9%,1.0%and0.6%.After Investigating psychological distress theory of college students, cause analysis, classification, data analysis, summary and summary, the author proposes the following targeted education measures:1. To strengthen the mental health education in a timely manner to resolve the students’ psychological distress.2. Guiding students to learn self-adaptation and seek the help of others to a combination of timely to release mental confusion.3. Concerned about the psychological distress of the special groups, focusing on the strengthening of targeted measures to assist them.4. Schools, families and society work together to create a favorable environment to balance state of mind, healthy growth for students.5. Group psychological education should aim at groups of the psychological distress problem...
Keywords/Search Tags:college students, psychological distress, current survey, Educationalcountermeasures
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