Characteristics and analysis of the pre-examination mental state of college physical education entrance examination participants in Shanxi Province
By utilizing the Chinese revision of the simplified POMS measurement form, the authors carried out a questionnaire survey and analysis on 146 male and 107 female examinees who participated in college entrance ex- aminations for physical education specialty in Shanxi Province in 2006, and revealed the following findings: Ap- proximately 60.7% of the examinees for physical education specialty was not mentally healthy before the examina- tions; the pre-examination mental state of the female examinees for physical education specialty was inferior to that of the male examinees (P 0.05); the pre-examination mental state of the examinees who are high school graduates of this year was inferior to that of the examinees who are high school graduates of previous years (P 0.05); the overall pre-examination mental state of the urban examinees was superior to that of the rural examinees (P 0.01); the pre-examination mental state of the sport lover type examinees was superior to that of the job hunter type ex- aminees, and the difference is very significant (P 0.01); the difference in such factors as nervousness, fatigue and angriness between the examinees from different areas is significant (P 0.05), but the difference in the total score for negative attitude and mood disorder between these examinees is not significant.