• Bing-hua Huang, Yang Wang, Qing-liang Wang, and Hong Wang.
• Department of Maternal Care and Child Health, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 400016, China.
• Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 2008 Nov 1; 29 (11): 1069-73.

ObjectiveTo investigate the psychological well-being and the correlation between psychological status and social support among the settled immigrations from Three Gorges Reservoir areas.MethodsA cluster randomized sampling was selected and 646 objects were interviewed with Basic Situation Scale, Symptom Check-list 90 (SCL-90) and Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS).ResultsOur findings from the results of SCL-90 revealed that the positive rate of psychological problem was higher in settled immigration than that of local permanent residents (chi(2) = 4.10, P = 0.04). The differences of scores on 6 factors including compulsion (t = 2.644, P = 0.009), interpersonal-sensitivity (t = 3.220, P = 0.001), depression (t = 2.684, P = 0.008), anxiety (t = 3.003, P = 0.003), paranoid-ideation (t = 3.246, P = 0.001), psychoticism (t = 2.088, P = 0.038) and the total score (t = 2.506, P = 0.013) were significantly different in female between the two groups. There were also significant differences of 10 factors score and total score (t = 4.114, P = 0.000) noticed between the two groups in age < or = 50 (P < 0.05) and the differences of 4 factors score including somatization (t = 2.777, P = 0.006), interpersonal-sensitivity (t = 2.384, P = 0.018), hostility (t = 3.174, P = 0.002), paranoid ideation (t = 2.611, P = 0.010). The total scores (t = 2.125, P = 0.034) were significantly different between the two groups in illiteracy and having received primary school education. Other than compulsion factor (t = 1.884, P = 0.061) and phobic anxiety factor (t = 0.979, P = 0.328), there were significant differences on other factors and the total score between the two groups in non-farmers (P < 0.05). Except compulsion (r = -0.103, P > 0.05), hostility (r = -0.084, P > 0.05) and paranoid ideation factor (r = -0.071, P > 0.05), the negative correlations were obvious between the total score, other factors score and social support (P < 0.05). The negative correlation was obvious between somatization (r = -0.128, P < 0.05), depression (r = -0.140, P < 0.05), anxiety (r = -0.137, P < 0.05), phobic anxiety (r = -0.120, P < 0.05), additional factor (r = -0.143, P < 0.05) total score (r = -0.137, P < 0.05) and subjective support. The correlation coefficient was not significant between SCL-90 total score, 10 factors score and that of objective support (P > 0.05).ConclusionThe psychological status of settled immigration was not satisfactory and closely correlated to psychological mental level and social support.

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