OBJECTIVE: To investigate the psychological well-being and the correlation between psychological status and social support among the settled immigrations from Three Gorges Reservoir areas. METHODS: A 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). RESULTS: Our 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). CONCLUSION: The psychological status of settled immigration was not satisfactory and closely correlated to psychological mental level and social support.

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