Changes In Postgraduate Freshmen’s Mental Health From 2004 To 2013

With the aggravation of competition, all kinds of psychological pressure, psychological conflicts and mental conflicts continue to increase. The problems of postgraduate mental health have become increasingly outstanding. Suicide, murder and other extreme behavior are always reported, which has become one of the important factors influencing the harmonious campus and society. The postgraduate are very important to our country, and they bear the historical responsibility of national construction in the future. How is the level of postgraduate mental health? How does it change and develop in recent ten years? How could we maintain the postgraduate mental health? These questions are needed to be discussed.This research chooses the postgraduate freshmen as the study object using Chinese college student mental health scale, to study the mental health status of postgraduate freshmen for recent ten years(2004-2013 years), and to analyzes the metal health differences and development characters in different years on the different scale factors, different genders, different majors, urban- rural, and only child or not.The development characters on the level and different factors of postgraduate freshmen’s mental health in recent ten years are found in the study results:(1) In recent ten years, 2004 session’s total level of mental health was the lowest, and 2006 session’s was the highest, and 2008 session was an important turning point(Mainly as, the mental health tolal level of postgraduate freshmen is on upward trend after 2004 session; The total level of the 2007 session decreases slightly, but is still lower than the norm; The tolal level of 2008 session decreases obviously and is higher than the norm, rebounding sharply; Changes become stable after 2008 session).(2) Overall, on the mental health total level of postgraduate freshmen in recent ten years, the men’s is higher than the women’s, the liberal arts’ s higher than the natural sciences’ s, urban students’ higher than rural students’, the single children’s higher than non-single children’s.(3) In recent ten years, compared with other factors, the factor of obsessive personality tendency of postgraduate freshmen was the worst, and the factors of psychotic tendency and psychosexual disorders were better.According to the characteristics of mental health status of postgraduate students freshmen in recent ten years, the causes are discussed thoroughly and then relevant countermeasures are put out. In practical work in the future, to maintain and improve the level of mental health of graduate students for their success, the methods below are suggested: strengthening the policy formulation and implementation, leading positive guidance to public opinion upon negative events, providing timely and effective social support, guiding the students to take positive and effective coping styles, providing normalized psychological services, carrying out targeted psychological counseling and the ideological and political education flexible management.