Correlation Between Social Support And Mental Health Of The Vocational College Students

Vocational college students are different from the university students and technical school students. In recent years, the social transformation brings the confusion and pressure to this new group. The aim of this research is to analyze the relationship of mental health and social support of the vocational college students and provide basic reference data for student psychological consultation. This study selected 252 students from one of Wuhan Vocational and Technical Colleges, who were investigated with SCL-90 and SSRS. The main conclusions are as follows:1. The mental health of the students in vocational colleges is above the average level of adults. But we can see that students of vocational college are the high risk group which is easily infected by mental disease. In the comparison of the mental health of vocational college students, female students are distinct from male students by a higher score in fear factor, and urban students scored higher than rural students in anxiety factor. However, there is no obvious difference when comes to the grade of the students, and their major or whether they are only child in their families. In the comparison of fear factor in different grades by twos, terrorist factor of five-year vocational college students scored higher than the first and the second grade group, and significantly. In the comparison of fear factor in different grades by twos, terrorist factor of five-year vocational college students scored higher than the first and the second grade group aswell, and significantly.2. It tells us social supports of vocational college students are generally good. Family support is mainly from parents. Friends and family members provide them financially while classmates care them mentally. Vocational college students will not take the initiative to seek community support. In this study only 25.78% of the vocational college students initiatively seek help when they meet troubles. In terms of different sex groups, female students gain more objective and subjective social support than male students. In terms of students from different place of birth, rural students gain more objective support than urban students. And In the comparison of students of different grades, there is no significant difference. We could find out that the special five-year vocational college students are unlike the ordinary vocational students who gained a lot of social support such as material assistance from social networks. The non-only-child students gained more subjective support than only-child vocational college students. There is no significant difference in students of different major.3. The mental health and social support of vocational college students are linked closely. Factors of SCL-90 are negatively related to social support lists. Social support plays a positive role on mental health.