Current Research Situation of Chinese Psychological Health over Recent Twenty Years

Abstract

Analysis was carried out on 538 papers about psychological health study (from 1998 to 2007) and which was included by CNKI (China National Knowledge Internet) data base using literature metrological method. The results showed: (1) the number of papers about Chinese psychological health study published in dominated academic Publications wasn’t large, the quality of which needs to be improved. (2) Concerning on the objects of study, more attention has been paid to teenagers’ psychological health study, and much less to pupils, preschool children, middle and old aged folks’ psychological health. (3) With regard of the research field, they concentrated on the relative factors about psychological health and the survey of psychological health’s current situation, and a few about the drawing of psychological health scale and psychological health education. (4) Cooperative research has been the leading way of psychological health study, but most of which were co operations inside one organization, the cooperations over institutions need to be strengthened. The team of psychological health study was forming, but it wasn’t stable, and there was not any core author. (5) The distribution of study power institutions focused on higher educational normal universities and mechanic colleges, hospitals, the distribution of study power regions mainly concentrated economic developed regions.
Key words: China; Psychological Health; Metrology