[Mental health and personality characteristics of military medical college students with different major satisfactions].
OBJECTIVE
To understand the mental health and personality characteristics of military medical college students with different major satisfactions.


METHODS
This investigation was conducted in 4 294 military medical college students using a self-designed questionnaire for the students' general condition including their major satisfactions, Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) and Eysenck personality questionnaires (EPQ).


RESULTS
The personality and the mental health of the students with different major satisfactions had significant difference. There was significant correlation between the students' satisfactions toward their majors and the personality and mental health.


CONCLUSIONS
The students with introverted and psychotogenic and neurotic personality are more likely to be dissatisfied with their major, and greater major dissatisfaction may lead to increased mental problems.
Department of Psychology, First Military Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China.
Huan-huan
HH
Liu
Xiao-yuan
XY
Zhang
Rong
R
Xiao
Xian-gang
XG
Feng
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D010551:Personality; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014495:Universities