Correlation between mental health and satisfaction with life of home-going peasant-workers
- VernacularTitle:返乡农民工心理健康与生活满意感的相关分析
- Author:
Xianhua LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2006;10(26):174-176
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
BACKGROUND: It has important praxis significance to penetrate into the mental health status and satisfaction with life of home-going peasant workers in order to improve their mental health level and quality of life.OBJECTIVE: To analyze the correlation the mental health and satisfaction with life of home-going peasant-workers, so as to provide a sound basis for effectively intervening their mental crisis and improving their satisfaction with life.DESIGN:A sampling survey.SETTING: Department of Educational Science of Hengyang Normal University.PARTICIPANTS: This investigation was conducted in 15 provinces of China in February 2005. Totally 300 home-going peasant-workers were surveyed during the Spring Festival.METHODS: The peasant-workers were tested individually with symptom checklist 90 (SCL-90) and the satisfaction with life scale (SWLS); they were given uniform directions and answered each question individually according to their own conditions in the latest week. All the answer papers were handed in on the spot. The data of SCL-90 and SWLS were input into the computer for statistical analysis. The SCL-90 questionnaire in which more than 5 items were left unanswered or the total score was below 95points and the SWLS questionnaire in which more than 4 items selected the answer of "neither agree nor disagree" were considered to be invalid and therefore rejected for analysis. All the datawere input into the computer and statistically analyzed with SPSS 11.0 software; the correlation analysis of the factors of SCL-90 and SWLS was surveyed with coefficient of product-moment correlation, the t test was applied for the significance of correlation coefficient.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The correlation between mental health and satisfaction with life of home-goingpeasant workers was anlayzed.RESULTS: Totally 300 questionnaires were sent out, 275 were handed in,and the collective rate was 91.67%. Finally 245 effective participants entered the analysis of results, including 118 males and 127 females, aged 16-52 years old, with an average of 26.09 years old. The total score of SWLS was negatively correlated with the total score of SCL-90 and the scores of obsession-compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety and paranoid ideation (r=0.167, -0.168, -0.208, -0.214, -0.139, -0.126,-0.200, P＜0.05-0.001). The score of "In most ways my life is close to my ideal" had no obvious correlation with the total score and factor scores of SCL-90. There were significant correlations between the factor score of "The conditions of my life are excellent" and the two factor scores of interpersonal sensitivity and depression of SCL-90 (r=-0.136,-0.143, P＜0.05).The factor score of" I am satisfied with my life" had significant correlations with the total score of SCL-90, the number of positive items and the factor scores of obsession-compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, depression,anxiety and paranoid ideation (r=-0.168, -0.148, -0.184,-0.214, -0.181,-0.162, -0.168, P＜0.05-0.001). The factor score of "So far I have gotten the important things I want in life" had significant negative correlations with the factor scores of interpersonal sensitivity, depression and paranoid ideation (r=-0.167, -0.128, -0.184, P＜0.05-0.001). The factor score of "If I could live my life over, I would change almost nothing" was in significant negative correlations with the total score of SCL-90, the number of positive items and all the factor scores of SCL-90 (r=-0.221, -0.175, -0.143,-0.179, -0.225, -0.273, -0.174, -0.176, -0.157, -0.246, -0.165, P＜0.05-0.001).CONCLUSION: There is a positive correlation between the mental health level and satisfaction with life in home-going peasant-workers.
