Abstract
This paper chooses groups of middle school students of the Tujia and the Hmong who both live in ethnic groups and have history of intermarriage and cultural identity between each other as subjects to study the relationship between meaning of life and mental health based on the Xiangxi culture, which aims to provide evidence for the mental health education for middle school students in ethnic regions. Firstly, to resort to the method of Literature Collection: Pay attention to the influence of Xiangxi culture on the meaning of life and the relationship between meaning of life and mental health during the analysis of the material, trying to find out the true meanings; Secondly, using the Purpose-in-Life Test (PIL) and Mental Health Test (MHT), 913 junior high school students were investigated by cluster random sampling method. The results of the study indicated that the total score of meaning of life was significantly correlated with anxiety in people, isolation tendency, allergic tendency and tendency to impulsive (p 0.05). In addition, stepwise regression analysis showed that the value of life was the most important factor to predict mental health in meaning of life, and the second was the quality of life and the freedom of life. Therefore, junior high school students’ meaning of life and their mental health levels has a certain relationship. Introduction of empirical investigation helps to better research and analyze the relationship between meaning of life and mental health of Chinese people in junior high school in Xiangxi area and provides the basis in the practice of junior high school students’ mental health education and life education.
Highlights
In recent years, adolescent suicide, homicide and other neglected phenomena in the life dignity and rights have occurred one after another, which will influence young people’s life value orientation and undermine their health status, formation of cruel, numbness, indifference and personality traits
In order to investigate the meaning of life sense of impact on the psychological health and its factors, four factors of meaning of life as predictor variables, eight factors of mental health were used as the criterion variable, and the α = 0.05 was taken as the index, and the stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between meaning of life and mental health of junior middle school students in the cultural background of Xiangxi Tujia and Hmong
Summary
Adolescent suicide, homicide and other neglected phenomena in the life dignity and rights have occurred one after another, which will influence young people’s life value orientation and undermine their health status, formation of cruel, numbness, indifference and personality traits. Reasons of the emergence of the phenomenon of contemporary young people to ignore the phenomenon of life are largely the lack of meaning of life. In the face of this situation, life education has become one of the important ways to solve the problem of the life of the contemporary young people. The meaning of life is to maintain and improve an important indicator of the health of body and mind, which will affect young people’s physical and mental health, happiness, life satisfaction and suicide attitude of development
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