Socio-demographic and Social Psychological Analysis of College Students with Anxiety in Anhui Province / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To analyze socio-demographic and social psychological characteristics of college students with anxiety in Anhui province. Methods: Striated all universities in Anhui according to professional fields, selected one university in each field and 15% of students of that university were collected as our sample (N=4178). Anonymous questionnaires inclusive self-rating anxiety scale (SAS), social experience checklist (SEC), adolescent self-rating life events checklist (ASLEC) and family environment scale-Chinese version (FES~CV) were used to investigate anxiety status and its relation with socio-demographic and social psychological characteristics. Univariate logistic and multivariate stepwise logistic models were used to calculate the odds ratios between prevalence of anxiety and those influential factors. Results:The rate of anxiety among our sample was 6.94% (in male 7.22%, in female 6.35%). Students of science and technology school had the highest rate of anxiety (10.08%), while those from medical school the lowest (3.59%). It was shown that anxiety status was statistically significant associated with many demographic and social psychological factors by ?~2 test, while in multivariate stepwise logistic models it was significant related with majors (referred to science and technology OR=1.77,95%CI1.30~2.41), poor academic achievement (OR=1.45,95%CI1.09~1.93), negative life events (OR=4.76,95%CI3.36~6.77), negative life experience (OR=3.35,95%CI2.43~4.62), and intimacy (OR=0.65,95%CI0.49~0.85)and emotion expression within families (OR=0.71,95%CI0.54~0.94). Conclusion: Anxiety status among college students was influenced by a variety of factors including socio-demographic and social psychological characteristics, which must be taken into consideration during psychological health promotion.