Volume 29, Issue 2
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.379
EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH OF MINORITY YOUTH
Abstract
The education of mental and physical health is an important task to promote the well-being of ethnic minorities in China. To fulfil the task, the first step is to clearly identify the health problems of minority youth. Therefore, this paper empirically analyses the mental and physical health of minority youth in universities. The subjects were subjected to a physical health test and a mental health using Cattell’s 16 Personality Factor Model. The test results were analysed statistically on the current state of, correlation between, and problems with mental health and physical health of the subjects. The results show that the physical fitness of the subjects is greatly affected by multiple personality factors; the subjects with good physical health have high scores in excitement, perseverance and courage, but low scores in intelligence, suspicion, experimentation, independence, and tension; the mental health of the subjects is positively correlated with the total score of the physical health test. The research results provide a new guidance on keeping the mental and physical health of minority youth in colleges.
Keywords
Mental Health, Physical Health, Correlation Analysis, Minority Youth.