Students Attributional Style, Social Support And Mental Health Research

The college students are in an important period of mastering knowledge, knowing the society and probing the life, and most of their mental crisis is concerned with the lack of good interpersonal relationship. So, the college students who are in the pressure of the fierce competition not only have a positive attitude towards for learning and living, but also have a good interpersonal relationship. Interpersonal attribution and social support on mental health has important implications. Therefore, there is an important significance for promoting their mental health to study the relationship of college students interpersonal attribution and social support on mental health, and the study can provide a theoretical basis for the research of their mental health.On the base of an extensive overviews of former research, this paper investigates the condition of college students mental health with Multidimensional-Multiattributional Causality Scale, Social Support Rating Scale and SCL-90, and explores the relationship of the college students'interpersonal attribution with social support and mental health after the descriptive statistics analysis, the independent sample T-test and the Pearson correlation analysis and medium effect for the survey data by the use of SPSS17.0 and LISREL8.70 statistical software package. The findings and conclusions can be briefly stated as follows:(1) There are significant differences on gender about the three dimensions of the attribution about the failure of ability, the failure of luck and the failure of internal control of the college students:boys get higher score than girls. There are significant differences between liberal arts students and science students on the attribution about the successful of ability: the liberal arts students get lower score than the science students.(2) There are significant differences between only child and siblings in college students on interpersonal attribution to the successful of luck, and the only child's college students scored significantly lower than sibling's college students.(3) There are significant differences in the dimension of social support on objective support between urban and rural college students, and from the urban's students scored significantly higher than students from rural areas. There are no significant differences between urban and rural college students in social support, subjective support, support utilization of three dimensions.(4) There are significant differences in the dimensions of social support on subjective support between only child and siblings, and the only child's college students scored significantly lower than sibling's college students. There are no significant differences between only child and siblings in social support, objective support and support utilization of three dimensions.(5) The study finds about interpersonal attribution in college students, interpersonal attribution to the successful of efforts, the success of luck, the success of internal control, the failure of background and the failure of outside control has significant predictors to mental health.(6) Social support has mediating effect between the attribution about the success of efforts, the success of luck, the success of internal control, the failure of background and the failure outside control of the five dimensions and mental health in college students.