Abstract:Objective To understand the anxiety status and influencing factors of freshmen in a university, and to explore its relationship with personality traits. Methods Using the method of cluster random sampling, 576 freshmen in a university were selected as the subjects, and the Zung Anxiety Self-rating Scale (SAS) and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) were used to investigate the mental health status. Result The detection rate of anxiety among freshmen was 10.24%, and the average score of SAS was higher than that of the national adult norm (P?0.05). Anxiety group students showed hostile, introverted and emotionally unstable personality traits; correlation analysis showed that students' SAS score was positively correlated with EPQ-P, EPQ-N factors, and negatively correlated with EPQ-E, EPQ-L factors (P?0.05); logistic regression analysis showed that students' majors, college entrance examination scores, father's education level and unstable emotional factors were the main factors affecting anxiety (P?0.05). Conclusions The anxiety level of the freshmen in this university is relatively high. Factors such as student's majors, college entrance examination results, father's education level and personality traits influence the occurrence of anxiety.