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The Mental Health of Ethnic Minority College Students in Southwest China——Problems and Causes

Jingyi You

Abstract


The mental health problems of ethnic minority college students are related to the development of the overall level of education in China. The purpose of this study is to identify the mental health problems and causes of ethnic minority college students. This study uses a mixed method of qualitative and quantitative research to collect and analyse specifi c data through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. This study selected a sample of 300 minority college students from three public universities in southwest China. The total sample size of the semi-structured interview is 8, including 5 minority college students and 3 teachers who are responsible for teaching management of minority college students. This study found that minority college students had depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, interpersonal sensitivity, somatisation, hostility, phobic anxiety,paranoid ideation and psychoticism. The causes of these mental health problems include cultural, family and lifestyle habits,politics and rhetoric, emotions, communication and other factors. This study may have some reference value for focusing on the mental health of minority college students and school institutions, and they may fi nd ways to help and solve the mental health problems of minority college students.

Keywords


Mental Health; Ethnic Minority College Students; Cognitive Dissonance

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v7i8.7802

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