Relationship of mental health status with social support, coping style and personality in military university freshmen

    LIU Fangª²E, WANG Anª²Hui, LIU Liª²Bing, YANG Yeª²Bing

    Center of Basic Medicine Teaching and Experiments, School of Basic Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, School of Preventive Medicine, Department of Psychology, School of Aerospace Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi¬ðan 710033, China

    ¡¾Abstract¡¿ AIM: To analyze the relationship of mental status with social support, coping style and personality of military freshmen. METHODS: Questionnaires containing SCLª²90, social support scale, simple coping style questionnaire and Eysenck personality questionnaire (EPQ) were used to evaluate the mental health status of 236 freshmen from a military university. Statistic methods such as t test, correlation analysis and multiple regression were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: 22.9% students had positive symptom and these students, compared with other students, got significant differences (P<0.05) in scores of total social support, subjective support and utilization of social support, selfª²blame, asking for help, fancy, avoidance, rationalization, introversion and extroversion, emotional stability and lie. Correlation analysis showed that mental health status got negative correlations (P<0.05) with social support scores and utilization, asking for help, introversion and extroversion and lie, and positive significantly correlations (P<0.05) with selfª²blame, fancy, avoidance, rationalization, emotional stability. CONCLUSION: Social support, the way of reaction and personality affect each other and exert complex influences on mental health status. ......