Personality and mental health of poverty college students in Fujian province
- VernacularTitle:福建省高校贫困大学生心理健康水平与人格特征
- Author:
Shaoying HE
;
Xiaogui LIN
;
Bijing JIANG
;
Huaping DUAN
;
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research
2007;0(30):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
AIM: To know the personality and mental health of the poverty college students. METHODS: 2 400 students of grade 2002, 2003 and 2004 were randomly selected from Fuzhou University, Fujian Normal University, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fujian Traditional Chinese Medical University and Minjiang College from September to November 2005, including 1 478 schoolboys and 922 schoolgirls with an average age of (20?1) years. According to the prescript of the Message from Fuzhou City Government of Improving the Lowest Life Guarantee Standard of Residents in the City, Town and Country issued by the office of Fuzhou Government in November 4th 2004, 210 Yuan was provided for each one in many-persons family every month and 230 Yuan for single-person family in the town; 155 Yuan was provided for each one in many-persons family every month and 175 Yuan for single-person family in the country. Poverty college student was defined in the paper as the following: Students with lower average family member month income and some debts, who could only afford part of tuition their basic cost of living closed to the lowest life guarantee line in the local residents (230 Yuan was taken as the baseline) were considered as the poverty students. SCL-90 and 16PF were adopted to study the mental health and personality of poverty college students. RESULTS: 2 400 questionnaires were sent out, and 2 111 valid ones were taken back. ① The scores of somatization, compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobia, paranoid, schizophrenia and others as well as the total score of symptom indexes in SCL-90 of poverty college students were significantly higher than those of non-poverty college students Poverty college students: 1.61?0.56,2.02?0.64,1.92?0.63,1.71?0.56,1.65?0.58,1.73?0.68,1.57?0.62,1.81?0.65,1.67?0.54,1.76?0.63,1.74?0.49;Non-poverty college students:1.48?0.45,1.89?0.56,1.79?0.57,1.61?0.51,1.54?0.50,1.61?0.56,1.44?0.49,1.66?0.54,1.54?0.46,1.61?0.53,1.62?0.41,P 0.05). ② The examined rate of psychological problem in poverty college students of Fujian Province was 24.5%, and that of slight psychological problems was 22.6%, and that of moderate psychological problems was 1.7%, and that of severe psychological problems was 0.2%. Among sub-specific factors, the psychological problems were prominent in obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, paranoid, depression, hostility, anxiety, etc. ③ Compare to non-poverty university students, the scores of poverty university students on sociality, intelligence, excitability, sensitivity, suspicion were distinctly lower, while the marks on permanence, anxiety, independence were significantly higher (Poverty college students: 5.20?1.77,4.70?1.93,5.49?1.87,6.46?1.79,4.29?1.71,4.60?1.63,6.64?1.82,5.07?1.82;Non-poverty college students:5.39?1.74,4.95?1.99,5.82?1.91,6.66?1.75,4.55?1.77,4.36?1.69,6.43?1.94,4.89?1.77,P
