(Department of Physical Education,Anhui University of Architecture,Hefei 230022,China) Abstract: The authors used the Symptom Checklist 90 to test 404 high performance athletes from 25 institutes of higher learning, evaluated their mental health condition, and revealed the following findings: the mental health con-dition of high performance college athletes is relatively poor; various indexes of their mental health level are higher than normal values of adults nationwide; the interpersonal relationship, anxiety and mental illness factors of high performance female college athletes are significantly higher than the same of male athletes; there is a significant difference in the interpersonal relationship, anxiety and mental illness factors between high performance college athletes of different classes; the mental health condition of higher performance freshman and senior college athletes is relatively poor; the anxiety factor is related to the main effect of gender and class; the mental illness factor is re-lated to the main effect of gender; the anxiety factor is related to the interaction of gender and class. Key words: mental health;SCL-90;high performance college athlete |