| Nowadays, with the rapid progress in science and living standard, more and more attention is given to spiritual life and life quality as well, which raises a new requirement for psychological researchers. Beginning with the springing up of the positive psychology in the 1960s, researchers prefer to attach importance to the positive mental states, the study of which is not restricted to negative mental states such as depression and anxiety any more, but focuses on the large quantity of researches on positive mental states such as subjective well-being. Subjective well-being refers to people's evaluations of their life-evaluations that both affective and cognitive. As a matter of fact, the researches on it have involved the fields of our view of happiness, the way people pursuit happiness, and factors that exert influence on happiness acquisition etc.Superior to the education of undergraduates, the education of postgraduates is a combination of education and scientific research at higher level. In recent years, great progress has been made in education of postgraduates, featuring by obvious advancement in both quality and quantity. To be postgraduates has become a hot spot, and more and more attention from society has been given to the current condition of postgraduates.With intensifying social competition, pressure and impact mainly from career selection, marriage and life are ever greater to postgraduates, which results in their amazement, puzzlement as well as various mental conflicts, even leads to varieties of mental problems. The current mental health education of postgraduates still requires a great step to take compared with its education in undergraduates, high school students as well as primary school students, which will surely exert some effect on the improvement of postgraduates in quality.This research adopts the method of investigation and questionnaires, selects 425 postgraduates of three grades in four universities of Xi'an with female 217, and male 208, and achieves a feedback of as much as 92%. The purpose is to investigate their evaluation of their own life state, furthermore to examine what their mental healthcondition is. With mental health as the subject, this paper tries to deal with the research on subjective well-being, social support, coping style as well as the relation among them so as to provide theoretical evidence for the mental health education of postgraduates.In what follows are the conclusions of this study:1 .postgraduates differs in the factor of satisfaction by sex, with that of female is higher than that of male, but they are found no significant difference in the factor of affect; the significant differences are discovered in three factors of subjective well-being among students in various grades, especially between grade one and three; the significant difference among majors is expressed by positive affect, with the tendency of students of arts are higher than those of science in marks of each factor;2.coping style and social support influence all factors of subjective well-being respectively, they also bear wide relation between themselves and work together on subjective well-being; there is obvious sexual difference between the appealing and t utility percentage, with the marks of female higher than that of male, which is in agreement with the results of other researches;3. Significant relation exists in the condition of mental health and the degree of subjective well-being, people with different condition of mental health differ greatly in subjective well-being. Through regression analysis, it is found that depression has a predictive function to all factors of subject well-being, paranoid ideation and hostility have some negative function as well;4.There is no gender difference in mental health; but there are significant differences in the factors of somatization, depression, anxiety, hostility and photic anxiety among grades; and obvious difference among majors in the factors of somatization, anxiety and depression.According to the results of this stu... |
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