A Survey of Secondary Vocational School Students' Current Positive Mental Quality and Education Strategies

The cultivation of positive mental quality is the core of positive mental health education.This study aims to probe into the developments of the current secondary vocational school students' positive mental quality in China,by using the Scale for Primary and Secondary School Students' Positive Mental Quality in China to survey 1942 secondary vocational school students.The results show the following:(1) On the whole,the students surveyed show well-developed positive mental quality in such indicators as cognition,emotions,interpersonal relationship,justice,temperance,and transcendence.(2) In the 15 indicators of positive mental quality,the students show their best mental quality in love,soul touching,and belief,and their worse mental quality in sincerity, creativity and leadership.(3) The students in areas at different levels of economic development show a significant difference in 6 indicators of positive mental quality.(4) There are significant grade and gender differences in these 6 indicators;except the indicator of justice,the students in higher grades score higher,with the boys achieving significantly higher scores than the girls.(5) Compared with those upper secondary school students nationwide,these students score apparently high in the indicator of temperance,instead of in such indicators of cognition,emotions,interpersonal relationship,justice,and transcendence;like those upper secondary school students nationwide,these students show a significant difference in 13 indicators of positive mental quality,excluding such indicators as knowledge seeking,thinking and insight.In conclusion,the authors give suggestions on the cultivation of secondary vocational school students' positive mental quality.