(School of Physical Education,Gannan Normal University,Ganzhou 341000,China) Abstract: By means of questionnaire survey, and by using the self-established Extracurricular Sports Activity Ques-tionnaire and the Middle School Student Mental Health Checklist established by professor WANG Ji-sheng as the measuring tools, the authors investigated and measured the extracurricular sports activity status and mental health conditions of 1,200 left alone and 1,200 non left alone junior high school students at middle schools in villages and towns in rural areas in order to probe into the relations between extracurricular sports activities and the mental mid-dle school students at middle schools in villages and towns in rural areas, performed a comparative analysis on the mental health conditions of these two groups of students, and revealed the following findings: in general the stu-dents did not have sufficient extracurricular sports activities, and the left alone students were even worse; the rate of measured mental health harmful trend of the left alone students is 44.5%, which is significantly higher the same of the non left alone students (36%); there is a significant difference in mental health condition between the left alone students of different genders and grades, the male students had a better mental health condition than the female stu-dents; grades 1 and 2 students had a better mental health condition than grade 3 students; as for the left alone stu-dents, there is a significant correlation between the main circumstances of extracurricular sports activities and vari-ous aspects in mental health. Key words: exercise psychology;mental health;extracurricular sports activity;left alone middle school student |