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Developing of Security Questionnaire and its Reliability and Validity

Chinese Mental Health Journal.1991;0(02):-.

Objective:To make a questionnaire about feeling of security.Methods:Regarding to the conception of security and the results of interviews to neurotics, we got 53 items as the draft. 343 sophomore students in Hebei Normal University were collected as the sample to test the reliability and validity of the draft.Results:Through factor analysis, we got two main factors named interpersonal security and certainty in control, including 16 items. It was proved that the questionnaire had good reliability and validity.Conclusion:The security questionnaire has satisfying psychometric quality and issuitable not only for the neurosis but also for normal people.

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Response characteristics of mentally retarded children in weight discrimination test

Jin JING

Chinese Mental Health Journal.1988;0(06):-.

Twenty-eight MR children were compared with 28 normal children in a weight dis-crimination test.The ability of weight discrimination in MR children were found markedly lower thannormal children in the tests either with their left hand,right hand,or both hands,though no signifi-cant difference was found among either left and right,or both hands of MR child,implicating that theimpairment of recognition function involved both cerebri hemisphere,not to support the hypothesis ofrecognition dysfunction either in left hemisphere or in right hemisphere dysfunction for MR children.The present investigation also found that MR children showed obvious tendency to make indefinite judgement,which might be a specific response pattern in MR children.

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Impact of Cognitive Style on Emotions in Junior College Students

Kaiguo XI

Chinese Mental Health Journal.2002;0(07):-.

Objective:To explore the relationship between cognitive style and emotions in junior college students.Method:The Cognitive Style Figures Test(CSFT),Depression Adjective Chech List(DACL),State- Anxiety Inventory(S-AI)and Ravens Standard Progressive Matrices(China City Version)(RSPM-CR)were ad- ministered to 100 participants who were divided into 2 groups(field dependent and field independent).Result: (1)Whether field-dependent students or field-independent,subjects had more depressive and anxious emotions after failure(depressive:10.5?2.9/9.4?2.5,P=0.003;13.3?4.1/7.9?3.7,P

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Creative Thinking of Deaf Children and its Related Factors

Liang YU ; Yueji SUN ; Nan YAN ; Yuan LIN ; Qian LI ; Siying WAN ; Mingming XUN

Chinese Mental Health Journal.2009;23(11):824-827,831. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2009.11.015

Objective：To explore the difference in creative thinking and the related factors between deaf children and normal children.Methods：Observation group(n=122)with the hearing disability students were selected from 4 special education schools.Control group(n=122)was come from 2 ordinary primary schools and 2 ordinary middle schools.The two groups were given both the New Creativity Test and the Combined Raven's Test.Results：(1)Deaf children got lower scores than normal children in verbal fluency[(7.76±0.75)vs.(12.98±0.59),P<0.001],verbal flexibility[(4.28±0.33)vs.(7.87±0.28),P<0.001],verbal originality [(7.16±0.89)vs.(11.35±0.72),P<0.001],figural flexibility[(9.69±0.35)vs.(11.10±0.31),P=0.003]and IQ[(101.05±1.196)vs.(105.01±1.102),P=0.030].Deaf children got higher scores than normal children in figural elaboration[(3.24±0.40)vs.(1.96±0.22),P=0.006].There was no significant difference in fluency and originality of figural task between the two groups.(2)Deaf children's scores of verbal fluency and verbal originality were positively correlated with their age(β=0.310,0.301;Ps<0.01).Deaf children's scores of verbal flexibility were positively correlated with length of bilingual education(β=0.308,P<0.001).Deaf children's scores of figural fluency,figural flexibility,figural originalityand figural elaboration were correlated positively with their age of sign language(β=0.321,0.308,0.228,0.456;Ps<0.05).Conclusions:(1)Deaf children are lower than normal children in verbal fluency,verbal flexibility,verbal originality,figural flexibility,and are higher in figural elaboration.There is no difference in figural fluency and originality between them.(2)Sign language is a major related factor to deaf children's figural creative thinking.

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Reliability and Validity of Test Anxiety Scale-Chinese Version

Caikang WANG

Chinese Mental Health Journal.2001;15(2):96-97，95.

Objective: To test the reliability and validity of Test Anxiety Scale (TAS)-Chinese Version. Method: A sample of 345 Chinese college students in Guangzhou was administrated with TAS and other three inventories. Result: The psychometric parameters of TAS-Chinese Version fulfilled the standard of psychometric. The scores of Chinese female students were lower than their American counterparts, but the scores of male students in both countries were at the same level. The study also revealed that about 20% Chinese college students had high level of test anxiety. Conclusion: The reliability and validity of TAS-Chinese Version is satisfying. Test anxiety of Chinese college students should be concerned.

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A Descriptive Study on Parental Rearing Behavior and Personality Disorder

Xiufen LIU ; Yueqin HUANG ; Liming LI

Chinese Mental Health Journal.2001;15(3):208-209,204.

Objective: To explore the relationship between parental rearing behavior and personality disorder. Method: Descriptive study was carried out in one key-university in Beijing. Two thousand two hundred and five freshmen were investigated with Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-Revised (PDQ-R) and EMBU scale. Fifty-five personality disorder cases were diagnosed by International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE). Results: The scores of emotional warmth, over-protection, and favoring subject of the maternal were higher than those of the paternal. Parental scores of EMBU factors were highly correlative. The scores of rejection, overprotection, favoring subject in personality disorder cases were significantly higher than those in control group, while the score of emotional warmth was significantly lower. Conclusion: Inappropriate parental rearing behavior is a risk factor of personality disorder.

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Relationship among Cancer-Related Fatigue,Coping Style and Quality of Life in Patients of Breast Cancer with Chemotherapy

Meifang WANG ; Xiaomei LI

Chinese Mental Health Journal.2009;23(11):776-779,789. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2009.11.005

Objective:To explore the relationship among the cancer-related fatigue,coping styles and quality of life in breast cancer patients with chemotherapy.Methods:A total 120 female breast cancer patients were selected as the subjects.The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire that was composed of four parts:the demographic data form,the Revised Piper Fatigue Scale (PFS),Jalowiec Coping Scale (JCS),Quality of Life Questionnaire-Core 30 (QLQ-C30),and Quality of Life Questionnaire-Breast 23 (QLQ-BR23).The statistical software SPSS was used for data analysis.Cancer-related fatigue,coping styles,quality of life and their related factors were determined by nonparametric tests.Spearman correlation coefficient was used to investigate the relationship among cancer-related fatigue,coping styles and quality of life in breast cancer patients with chemotherapy.Results:There was a significant negative moderate correlation between cancer-related fatigue and the quality of life (r＝-0.24,P<0.01),and negative correlation between cancer-related fatigue and the total health status (r＝-0.39,P<0.01).The positive coping styles including optimistic and confronting were negatively correlated with cancer-related fatigue (r＝-0.25,-0.18，Ps<0.05),and were positively related to the functional domain of quality of life(r＝0.35，0.21， Ps<0.05).The positive coping styles including emotive,fatalistic,and palliative were positively correlated with cancer-related fatigue (r＝0.25,0.18,and 0.28， Ps<0.05),and were negatively correlated with the functional domain of quality of life (r＝-0.40,-0.32，Ps<0.05),and emotive and fatalistic were positively related to the symptomatic domain of quality of life(r＝0.40,0.28,Ps<0.05).Conclusion:There exists a certain degree of correlation among cancer-related fatigue,coping styles and quality of life in breast cancer patients with chemotherapy,which may guide the clinical care.

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Social Support in Students of Normal College

Wen ZHANG ; Guanghui QI ; Richang ZHENG

Chinese Mental Health Journal.2001;15(2):81-82，87.

Objective: To explore how social support in students of normal college related to their interpersonal attribution and philosophies of human nature, and whether social support varied with different subgroups. Method: Social Support Rating Scale, the Multidimentional-Multiattributional Causality Scale and Revised Philosophies of Human Nature Scale were used in 414 students of a normal university. Result: The social support of students differed significantly among different departments, students of science had lower social support than students of art or sport had. There was no significant difference of social support between sexes, different grades, of urban or rural area. Social support was significantly correlated with "effort" attribution of interpersonal relationship, but not with "ability, background or luck". Social support was positively related to trustworthiness, while negatively to cynicism. Conclusion: This result fits for the common sense of Chinese and people elsewhere.

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Chinese-Swedish joint project on houseing,environment and health (Ⅴ):Health and behavior problems of children in various types of dewelling

Huang YUEQIN

Chinese Mental Health Journal.1992;0(01):-.

Among the 125 children aged 6-14 years from big families resided in various typesof dwelling,results show that significantly more in-door activities of children with their family mem-bers was found in those from high rise,but the longest time of out-door activities of children was foundin those from pinfang.No significant difference in health condition was observed among children fromvarious types of dwelling and little influence of dwelling type was yet observed upon health conditionof children so far.

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Study on the possible effects of psychosocial factors on the development of coronary artery disease

He YAO

Chinese Mental Health Journal.1992;0(01):-.

Compared with 165 subjects without coronary artery disease(CAD),125 CAD pa-tients diagnosed bycoronary arteriography were investigated on the possibld relationship among psy-choosocial factors,including occupation,negative life events,type A behavior,and indexes of bloodlipid and blood rheology.The results showed that occupation type was one of the significantly correatesto the indexes of blood-lipid metabalism and blood rheology.The changes of neuroendocrinology andblood rheology following the occurrence of negative life events were correlated with the onset of lethalCAD.The physical and chemical indexes of hematology observed in subjects with Type A behaviorwere associated with atherogenesis and the pathogenesis of CAD.

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