Mental Health Investigation Of Minority Female Students In Xinjiang Colleges And Universities

Objective: Discussed mental health and personality characteristics of minority female college students, and conducted an investigation at 6 typical colleges and universities, provide theoretical basis for their mental health education and mental health services. Methods: Research Objects were selected with a stratified sampling method, took general case and SCL-90 into the questionnaire and combined with the interview method. Selected 6 colleges and universities(Xinjiang University、Xinjiang Normal University、Xinjiang Medical University、Xinjiang Agricultural University、Xinjiang University of Finance and Economics、Xinjiang Arts Institute) female national minority students in each grade within the scope of Xinjiang Urumqi, sent 1260 and withdraw 1013 copies of effective questionnaire. Use the interview outline,chose 15 typical female national minority students of 6 colleges and universities and carried on semi-structured interviews,detailed understanding their feeling and states of the actual learning life. Results: compared with the national university students’ norm, each factor of SCL-90 of Xinjiang female minority university students scores were significantly higher than the national university(P<0.01);compared with northern and easthern Xinjiang students, southern Xinjiang students had more problems in interpersonal relationship(P<0.05); SCL-90 scores and each factor of Uygur,Kazakh and other racial had no statistical signification; ≥21 years old female minority university students had high scores than 18 s, 19 s, 20 s in interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility(P<0.05); senior and above had high scores than premed, freshman, sophomore, junior in anxiety, somatization, factor of terror(P<0.05); different types of students in SCL-90 scores had statistical signification(P<0.01). ethnic undergraduate students who took entrance exam to university with their own language had remarkable high scores than who studying at Han Chinese schools; ethnic undergraduate students who had different schooling experiences in the high school stage were significantly different in SCL-90 total score and each factor score(P<0.05);those female minority university students who studied in the high school stage of Xinxiang had high scores on the factors of anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder than who studied out of Xinxiang; students who came from single parent, divorced, double parents, and other family background had no statistically significant in total scores and factor scores; multiple linear regression analysis which influence the mental health factors of female minority university students showed study stress, major satisfaction, employment pressure, life satisfaction family relationships, interpersonal relationship, homeplace, examinee type and college experiencewere major factors and all enter the regression equation; 15 female minority university students who received interview considered study, emotion and interpersonal relationship were major problems in college, which had difference in grades; and friends,teachers and parents would have great influence in turn in their college lives.Conclusions: Psychological status of Xinjiang female minority colleges’ students are below the level of national university student group, different regions, ages, grades, examinee types, college experience have influence in female minority university students, it is showed that study stress, major satisfaction, employment pressure, life satisfaction family relationships, interpersonal relationship, homeplace, examinee type and college experiencewere major factors, warning the families, schools and society should pay more attention to this special group, taking preventive measure, strengthen and improve minority female college students mental health education.