Abstract:

Objective: To investigate the mental health of foreign students for a targeted education and management. Methods:
Questionnaire was conducted among 177 oversea students in Dali University with symptom checklist 90 （SCL-90）and statistically analysed with SPSS11.5. Results: The status of oversea students' mental health rendered as: obsessive-compulsive > paranoid >interpersonal sensitivity > depression > somatization > terror > other > anxiety > hospitality > psychotic. Compared with the norm, the score of the four factors: obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression and hostility is lower; the anxiety factor is similar; and the other five factors is higher. Foreign students in the seven factors of somatization, depression, anxiety, hostility, paranoid, psychotic and other is different, but the difference was not statistically significant. The difference in obsessive -compulsive was statistically significant. And the difference in interpersonal sensitivity and terror was highly statistically significant. In addition, there are gender differences and faculty differences in the mental health of foreign students. Conclusion: The mental health status of foreign students is not optimistic, we should pay attention to foreign students' mental health problems, strengthen foreign students mental health education, and optimize the foreign students' education management environment.

Key words: mental health, SCL-90, oversea student, investigation