Impoverished Undergraduates’ Personality Characteristics, Social Support Relationships With Mental Health

China is a developing county, with the development of economy and the demand of talented person, the universities gradually expand the admissions, so the number of impoverished undergraduates increases, which is about26%of the total number of university students. Based on the knowledge of our country, the impoverished undergraduates of this huge special group will be general and stable at this stage. The article studies the social support, personality traits and mental health of impoverished undergraduates, to help the poor ones to get better resources and establish a sound personality, to promote the development of psychological health, to make them complete their studies successfully and adapt to society better, and provide more scientific and more effective theoretical and practical basis for the school mental health education.This article selected340college students as subjects which are from two universities in Wuhan. There are180non-impoverished undergraduates and160impoverished undergraduates. The collected data was statistically analyzed by SPSS17.0, the statistical method were chi-square test, T test and Pearson correlation analysis, and the results of the study:1. There are significant differences of mental health between the impoverishe d undergraduates and the non-impoverished undergraduates, and the non-impoverish ed undergraduates are better than impoverished undergraduates in mental health. A ccording to the severity of mental health problem, the situation will be dived into3categories:First, the serious mental health problem; Second, the general ment al health problem; Third, well mental health condition; The distribution of number s of impoverished undergraduates in three types are not very different, but in non-impoverished undergraduates, the number of the third type which means good sit uation, is significantly higher than the number of the first type, which means seri ous mental health problem.2. In impoverished undergraduates, there are significant differences between genders. The boys are worse than girls in mental health.3. There are differences in objective-support between the impoverished undergraduates and non-impoverished undergraduates. The social support of non-impoverished undergraduates is higher than the impoverished undergraduates. In the aspects of subjective support and the use of support, there are no significant differences.4. In the utilization of social support, there are significant differences between different genders, and the girls are higher than boys. In the aspects of subjective support and objective support, there are no significant differences.5. There are significant positive correlation between social support and mental health in impoverished undergraduates. And there is a significant correlation between the subjective support, the utilization of support and mental health. The N and L two dimensions in personality characteristics have significant positive correlation with mental health; The P and L two dimensions have a significant negative correlation with mental health.6. The objective support of impoverished undergraduates and the utilization of support predict a positive effect on mental health. The personality of impoverished undergraduates, E(introversion-extroversion) predicts a positive effect on mental health. Through these findings, we draw the following conclusions:social support has an important impact on students’mental health and development of personality traits, and the development of impoverished undergraduates’mental health need more social support; As the mental health education in college, we should not only highly focus on the impoverished undergraduates’mental health problem, but also provide mental health education and counseling for impoverished undergraduates based on different genders.