Mental Health Conditions of Senior High School Students at Private Schools

The Symptoms Check List 90(SCL-90) was applied to examine the mental health conditions of 308 senior high school students of Grade 11 at private schools.The results reveal that the students generally have some kinds of mental diseases such as compulsion,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,anxiety,hostility,fear,paranoid ideation and psychosis,of which the most serious problems are compulsion and interpersonal sensitivity.Girl students obviously show more depression and fear than boy students do,while students of liberal arts show more depression and hostility than the students of sciences do.There are no apparent disparities between urban and rural students,the students from single-child families and those from non-single-child families.