| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 生活應用科學研究所 === 92 === ABSTRACT
The aim of the study is to investigate the effect of life stress and locus of control on adolescent mental health and in understanding current background variables, life stress, personal characteristics, physical and mental health of adolescents.
The study adopted the use of questionnaire which was assigned to junior high school students who attended public junior high schools in Hsinchu area. After stratified random sampling, 713 effective samples were obtained from all participants in the study.
The questionnaire consisted of four sections: personal background survey, life stress scale, locus of control scale, and mental health scale. Statistical analyses used in the study included percentage, frequency distribution, mean value, standard deviation, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s method, pearson product-moment correlation and multiple regression. Results of the study are as followed:
1.Almost 60﹪of adolescents came from the low SES.
2.In the past six months, adolescents experienced pressure
level between no worries and a few worries with a tendency
toward having a few worries. Their greatest pressure came
from self-expectation, school work and communication, self-
performance, living environment and their interpersonal
relationships.
3.The personal characteristic of the adolescents tend to be
more internally controlled.
4.The most common problems faced by the adolescents during the
month before questionnaire was assigned were mental symptoms
and anxiety, exercise and health, positive health
recognition, and alcohol and drug use in descending order.
5.The mental health of adolescent were significantly affected
by sex, age, grade, socio-economic status of their family,
personal characteristics and other variables. However, no
significant difference was found in their family structure.
6.Girls had a higher mean value for ‘physical symptoms and
anxiety’ and ‘positive health recognition’ comparing with
that of boys, i.e. girls were prone to ‘physical symptoms
and anxiety’ symptoms and lack of the ‘positive health
recognition’ comparing with that of boys.
7.Junior high school students in the eighth and ninth grade
showed more significantly more on physical and mental health
symptoms than the seventh graders, which mean that eighth
and ninth graders had poorer physical and mental health.
8.The values on overall mental health, positive health
recognition and exercise and health would differ according
to the socio-economic status of the adolescents. Adolescents
who have low SES are higher than those who have high SES. In
the other word, adolescents who grow up with low SES have
worse mental health than …Adolescents who have low SES is
higher than those who have high SES. In the other word,
adolescents who grow up with low SES have poorer positive
health recognition and exercise and health.
9.The mental health of adolescents would differ significantly
according to overall pressure in life, living environment
and their interpersonal relationships, self-expectation,
self-performance and school work and communication. There is
no significant difference on the variable of alcohol and
drug use.
10.Overall, mental health of adolescents who were more
externally controlled were poorer and their mean values on
mental symptoms and anxiety, positive health recognition,
exercise and health, alcohol and drugs were significantly
higher than those who were more internally controlled.
11.It is predictable that the important variables of mental
health were personal characteristics, self-expectation,
school work and communication, socio-economic status of
their family and sex etc... These variables explained 27.8%
of the effects.
Key Words: Adolescents, Life Stress, Locus of Control, Mental
Health.
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