Middle School Students' Mental Health, Attribution Style And Attribution Training Experiment Research

Mental health is the unity of the individual internal coordination and external adaptation ingood condition. Attributional style refers to individual incline to reason that incident happentraditionally. It is a stable attribution tendency in the long-term attribution process. There is closerelation between mental health and attributional style, however, the study conclussions areinconsistent.In this study, junior high school students are used as research object. The relation betweenmental health and attributional style was investigated. Low mental health group was randomlydivided into experimental and control group. Trained the experimental group for about twomonths according to the attributing training strictly and changed their improper attribution whilethe control group had no indicates. At the end, it was analyzed that the attributive differencesbetween the experimental and cntrol group.The results showed that:（1）Compared with the national norm mental health of high school students was notoptimistic. It was significantly higher than the norm on the somatization, obsessive-compulsy,interpersonal sensitiveity and hostility. On the interpersonal sensitiveity and hostility,male washigher than the female, however, famale on the depression and phobic was higher than the male.（2）High school students in general attributed the positive events to the intrinsic, overall,long-lasting reasons, and attributed the negative events to the intrinsic, special and temporaryreasons. The high school students had no significant differences in male and female.（3）Each factor of mental health related with each dimension of attributional style. In thepositive events, there was a significant negative correlation between the internality andsomatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility, phobia, paranoid; There was asignificant negative correlation between the integrity and somatization, obsessive-compulsive,interpersonal sensitivity, depression, hostility; There was a significant negative correlationbetween the persistence and interpersonal sensitivity, hostility, paranoia. In the negative events,there was a significant positive correlation between the internality and somatization,interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostile, paranoid, psychotic; There was asignificant positive correlation between the integrity and interpersonal sensitivity, depression,hostility; There was a significant positive correlation between the persistence andobsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, paranoid, psychotic.（4）Different level of mental health of the students had different attributional style. It wasdifferent with the low mental group, the high mental group attributted the positive events to theintrinsic, overall and long-lasting reasons. The low mental health group attributed the negative events to the intrinsic and long-lasting reasons, but the different levels of mental health grouphad no difference in the intergrity.（5）By attribution training the experimental group in general more inclined to attribute thepositive events to the intrinsic, overall and lasting reasons, and attribute the negative events toexternal, temporary, special reasons. It showed that the training’ effect is significant.（6）Mental health of the experimental group was improved than before, and compared withthe control group it was improved signficantly. It showed that the attribution training couldimprove students’ mental health through the improvement of attributional style, but theobsessive-compulsive was not changed.