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Relationship between Personality and Mental Health in High School Students

Lu Sun

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Objective: To examine correlations between mental health and personality or defense style in high school students. Methods: 518 students were assessed by the SCL-90, EPQ, and Defense Style Questionnaire. Results: Mental health problems were more commonly found in students with maladaptive personality and unstable emotion. Majority of students with mental health problems adopt immature defense styles. Conclusion: Mental health education should be addressed to the personality characteristics of individual students. In addition, maladaptive defense styles should be modified.

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Key concepts: Psychology, Mental health, Personality, Clinical psychology, Style (visual arts), Developmental psychology, Social psychology, Psychiatry