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Objective To explore the relationship between college students' psychological health status,family parenting styles and personality characteristics using the structural equation model.Methods A total of 4 866 College students (2 122 males,2 744 females) were surveyed with NEO five-factor inventory (NEO-FFI),family upbringing style questionnaire(FUSQ) and psychological symptom inventory-100(PSI-100).Lisrel 8.7 was used to construct the structural equation model.Results NEO-FFI total score was 198.08±15.31,PSI-100 total score was 167.08±68.23,father upbringing style questionnaire total score was 457.80±62.10,and mother upbringing style questionnaire total score was 459.27±61.91.For the factors of personality,the more influential factors were agreeableness,conscientiousness and openness.There was a negative correlation between good personality and psychological symptoms(path coefficient =-0.73,P＜0.05).For the factors of family parenting styles,parenting dimension scores (such as mother's democracy,encouragement,understanding,father's supervision,respect) were negatively correlated with psychological symptom scores(path coefficient=-0.18,P＜0.05).Conclusion Family parenting styles can directly affect the psychological symptoms and the personality status,thereby affecting mental health of college students.Personality characteristics could be a mediated variable to regulate the relationship between family parenting styles and psychological health of college students.