A Study On The Relationship Between D - Type Personality And Mental Stress And Mental Health Of College Students

Objective:(1)To find out the distribution of Type Distressed Personalities (Type D Personalities) in university students;(2)To study the relationship between Type D Personalities and Psychological Stress Feeling in university students;(3)To study the relationship between Type D Personalities and mental health in university students.Methods:912university students from the universities of Jiangsu(Nanjing), Shandong,Fujian,Hebei,Chongqing five provinces were selected, based on the principle of convenient and random sampling.Type D Personalities Scale (DS-14),Symptom Check List90(SCL-90) and Psychological Stress Feeling Scale were used to make a survey.Results:(1)26.3%subjects can be defined as Type D Personalities.(2)There were no significant difference between Type D Personalities group and none Type D Personalities in the schools, grade, professional, urban and rural,the only child. But There were significant difference between Type D Personalities group and none Type D Personalities In sex.(3)There were significant difference between Type D Personalities group and non Type D Personalities group in SCL-90, Psychological Stress Feeling Scale.Type D Personalities group had a higher score than none Type D Personalities.Conclusions:(1)The overall distribution of Type D Personalities university students was in line with the international level of the general population, which provided an evidence that Type D Personalities is a stable and abroad Personality trait.(2)Type D Personalities group had a higher score than none Type D Personalities in SCL-90, who scored an average of between1to3in each factor, which indicated Type D Personalities group was in the state of sub-health, needed to pay a close attention to them.(3)SI score was higher than NA score in DS-14in all the university students, which was in accordance with the domestic researches.But it did not agree with the international researches, which may be related to cultural differences;There were significant difference between female university students and male university students in the score of NA. Female university students had a higher score than male university students,which was in line with international researches.(4) There were no difference between Type D Personalities group and non Type D Personalities group in stressors,but the feeling of stress intensity is difference between them.In the same pressure source, Type D Personalities college students feel more pressure.