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Relationships between Self-esteem, Self-identity and Mental Health in College Students

Tao Wang

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Objective:To explore the relation between self-esteem, self-identity and mental health in college students. Methods:471 college students were tested by Scale of Self-esteem, Self-identity for College Students and SCL-90. Results:The SCL-90 scores of students with high self-esteem and high self-identity were significantly different from those of students with low self-esteem and low self-identity; there were significant negative correlation between scores of self-esteem and several components of SCL-90; there were also significant negative correlation between scores of self-identity and all factors of SCL-90. Conclusion: There were close relation between self-esteem, self-identity and mental health in college students;and self-identity showed closer relation to mental health than self-esteem did.

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Key concepts: Psychology, Self-esteem, Identity (music), Mental health, Self-concept, Clinical psychology, Relation (database), Developmental psychology