A Research On The Freshmen's Role Adjustment And Mental Health

Freshmen to be pointed as those who are in the course of fitting the lifestyle and study of university in order to achieve the conformance with one's own individual and environment. It is a kind of inevitable problem to freshmen who act as an incipient undertaker. But their subjective reactions were not same to the different individuals. And their mental health presented some certain feature. So there had significant meaning to investigate the freshmen's mental health and its influencing factor. Role adjustment is a kind way of mental adaptation and behavior reaction that individuals make use of it in order to keep the balance and harmony with the new role they take or the new environment they stay. And role adjustment is the key affect factor of freshmen's mental health. To develop The Freshmen's Role Adjustment Questionnaire that was based on the freshmen's mental health was one of the objectives of this research. Using The Freshmen's Role Adjustment Questionnaire to measure the freshmen's role adjustment in order to investigate freshmen's adaptation. And using UPI to inquiry the freshmen's mental health so that we could learn the situation of the freshmen's health. In the same way we could know the relationship between the freshmen's role adjustment and their mental health. This way could supply a new visual perspective and means to investigate university student's mental health and had theoretical and practical significance. After investigating 676 freshmen with The Freshmen's Role Adjustment Questionnaire and The University Personality Inventory, The results showed that:1. The Freshmen's Role Adjustment Questionnaire was consisted of general role, status role, relationship role, economic role, and life role, and had 34 items. That could explain 46.65% variation. The whole consistent reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was 0.90; the interval of factors'consistent reliability coefficient was 0.69-0.81. The interval of the factors'correlation coefficient was 0.21-0.72; the interval of correlation coefficient between total score and factors was 0.60-0.79. The fitting index of the amended model:χ2/df was 3.20, RMSEA was 0.06, NFI was 0.91, NNFI was 0.93, and CFI was 0.94. The goodness of fit indicated that The Freshmen's Role Adjustment Questionnaire had content validity. It was showed that the questionnaire had acceptable credibility also from the reliability analysis. And the questionnaire could be used to investigate the freshmen's adjustment.2. The average of The Freshmen's Role Adjustment Questionnaire was 3.38. It indicated that the freshmen's adjustment were well. The average of life role was the highest, it was 3.95. And the average of the general role was the lowest, it was 2.84. There had significant differences on universities, where the freshmen come from and whether they are one-child of the family. It showed evident differences of where the freshmen come from on the dimension of economic role and life role. The students'role adjustment who come from city and town were better than that come from country on the dimension of economic role; and the students'role adjustment who come from country were better than that come from city and town on the dimension of life role. Significant differences of universities existed on the four dimensions except for economic role. The average of finance & economics university were higher than that of normal university on the dimension of general role; the average of finance & economics university were higher than that of normal and medical universities on the dimension of status role; the average of multiversity and finance & economics university were higher than that of normal university on the dimension of relationship role; the average of normal, finance & economics university and multiversity were higher than that of medical university on the dimension of life role. There had clear differences of whether they are one-child of the family on the dimension of status role except for other four dimensions. In short, the freshmen's role adjustment of finance & Economics Universities was best, that of normal university was worst. The freshmen's role adjustment of medical university was worse on the dimension of status and life role.3. The whole average of the UPI was 13.43; the percentages of UPIⅠ, UPIⅡand UPIⅢwere 28.34%, 32.05% and 39.61%. The main mental problems registered as self-negative, be absent of self-confidence, be too-worry, compulsion tendency, and emotionality. The freshmen's mental health had no significant differences in sexes, universities, whether they are one-child of the family, where they come from, and whether they are cadre of the students.4. The freshmen's role adjustment had obvious negative correlations with mental health. The more the freshmen's role adjustment was better the more their mental health was well; It could be proved from the clear differences between the high score group and the low score group of the freshmen's role adjustment also. The further regression analysis indicated that the freshmen's role adjustment could forecast 31.8% variance of UPI. They were status role, relationship role, general role, and economic role in turn.