Author(s)

Juncheng Zhu¹, Xinqiang Wang¹, Zhenliang Liu², Tiantian Liu³, Guoqing Wei⁴, Xiangyu Chen¹

¹School of Psychology, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, China.
²Department of Psychology, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China.
³School of Education, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China.
⁴Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing, China.

Objective: To investigate the mediating effect of social adaptation between the Chinese college’s mental health and self-concept. Methods: Five hundred and eight college students were surveyed with China College Student Adjustment Scale (CCSAS), College Student Self-Concept Questionnaire (CSSQ), and Development of Chinese College Student Mental Health Scale (DCCSMH). Using SPSS and the tools of the Bootstrap to explore the mediating effect of social adaptation between the Chinese college’s mental health and self-concept. Results: Self-concept, mental health and social adaptation were significant correlated with each other (except for that self-concept, anxious, depending and impulse, social adjusting and forcing). The mediating effects made up 8% to 20% of the total effects. Conclusion: Self-concept can directly affect mental health of college students, social adaptation acts as a mediating role between self-concept and mental health among Chinese college students.

Self-Concept, Mental Health, Social Adaptation, The Mediating Effect, Chinese College Students

Zhu, J. , Wang, X. , Liu, Z. , Liu, T. , Wei, G. and Chen, X. (2016) The Relationship between Self-Concept and Mental Health among Chinese College Students: The Mediating Effect of Social Adjusting. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 4, 118-125. doi: 10.4236/jss.2016.412011.