AUTHOR=Li Fengzhan , Liu Jinxiao , Qiu Fanshuo , Liu Huitao , Xin Sufei , Yang Qun 

TITLE=Changes in mental health levels among Chinese physical education college students from 1995 to 2019

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1034221

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1034221

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=To explore the changes in the mental health level of physical education college students in China, the present study conducted a cross-temporal meta-analysis of 43 papers using the Symptom Checklist 90 (SCL-90) from 1995 to 2019. The results showed that: (1) The average scores of the seven SCL-90 factors were negatively correlated with the year of data collection; (2) The mean effect sizes of the gender differences in scores of seven dimensions (except for depression and phobic anxiety) were lower than the small effect size. In conclusion, the mental health level of Chinese physical education college students has increased in the past 25 years, although the increasing trend of mental health level of female students was more obvious, there were no significant gender differences.