Objective To discuss the relationship between the state of mental health of college graduate students and its responses.Method To adopt the college students mental health evaluation scale and simplified response questionnaire for an investigation of 156 college graduate students.Results The total scores of college graduate student mental health evaluation were over 3on average

and score for positive response was higher than that of negative responses（P<0.01）.There was a direct proportional relationship between positive responses and the other four mental health dimensions

namely happy experiences

interpersonal harmony

academic aspiration

and challenging spirit respectively

and with the total score of mental health（P<0.01）

while an inverse proportional relationship existed between the negative responses and the same aforementioned factors（P<0.01）.The predictive index of positive responses and negative responses to mental health were0.326and-0.451respectively（P<0.05）.Conclusion The general state of the mental health of college graduate students is on a medium level

and college graduate students take positive responses more frequently than negative responses.Both positive and negative responses are closely related to ones’ mental health

and both have predictive effects on ones’mental health.