The Effects Of Family Socioeconomic Status On Senior High School Students’ Mental Health: The Moderating Effect Of The Subjective Socioeconomic Status And Social Power

Health is a comprehensive concept, covering all aspects of physical, mental, spiritual and social adaptation. Health is the result of various factors (economy, health service, culture, customs, etc.) working together. In recent years, people are paying more attention to nonmedical factors effecting on health, especially the socio-economic factors. Socioeconomic status as a part of social culture background plays a more or less important role in everyone’s life, especially in middle school students who are in a critical period of body-mind development. Subjective socioeconomic status which captures the individuals’perceived place within a resource-based hierarchy has a greater influence on individuals’body-mind health. So it is one of vital factors which affecting senior high school students’mental health problems that can’t overlooked.The constructs of social power and social status capture different aspects of social hierarchy. Social power reflects control relative to others over valued outcomes, whereas social status reflects one’s perceived prominence within a social group. Socioeconomic status (education, occupation, and income) provides social resources and influences one’s standing within a social group. Social status may serve as a source of social power perhaps via allocation of resources. Social status influence people’s physical and mental health is beyond doubt, but is still a lack of research on the role of the family Socioeconomic status on the teenagers mental health. Referring to the domestic and foreign research, finding the scholars did not examine the role of senior high school students family Socioeconomic status on mental health the mediation effect of social power.This research starts with focusing on the health problem of senior high school students, and revises the sense of power scale to make them in good validity and reliability. Then choose 1336 senior high school students in the southwest area as sample in random and measure them with the scale of socioeconomic Status, the scale of Subjective Social Status-A, the Sense of Power Scale and the scale of SCL-90. This research adopts SPSSS20.0 and Mplus7 to find the relationship among family socioeconomic status, subjective social status, social power and mental health, and explore the role of senior high school students family Socioeconomic status on mental health the mediation effect of Subjective Social Status and social power.The results are:(1)The revised sense of power questionnaire has good reliability and validity, the indicators of confirmatory factor analysis are in line with the standard theory which can be used as an effective questionnaire.(2) The girls’ scores in the Generalized Sense of Power Scale are significantly higher than boys’ scores. The power of high school students come from the town is higher than those come from rural areas. The power of Students as the only child is higher than those non only child. The Power of senior high school students as a class cadre is significantly higher than those without being a class cadre. The power of high school students ranking 25% is higher than after those ranking 50%-75% and 75%.(3) The score in the SES and SSS-A of senior high school students from the town is significantly higher than those students from rural areas. The SSS-A score had no significant difference in whether the only child. But the only child SES scores are significantly higher than the non only child. The SES and SSS-A scores of senior high school students being class cadre are significantly higher than those of non class cadre of students.(4) There was significantly difference between the genders, whether there were the only child, whether were the class leader and marks sequencing on the level of SCL-90.(5) The correlations of various dimensions of health, family socioeconomic status, subjective social status and social power are in varying degrees.(6) SSS-A and social power play the role of continuous mediation in the relationship of all dimensions for the health and senior high school students’ family socioeconomic status.