Multivariate ANOVA of College Students' Mental Health

This paper used multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) method to investigate whether changes in the independent variables such as gender, age, family location etc, have significant effects on the dependent variables. Date was collected from students in Hebei University of Technology, by using Chinese College Student Mental Health Scale (CCSMHS). Result shows that interaction from four factors such as interactions among gender, only-child, major and family location have significant influence on anxiety. Different family locations also affect some dimensions. Mental health of students grow in large cities is significantly better than those from small and medium-sized cities, small towns and rural.