【Objective】 To learn the correlation between the level of the mental health and personality character of students with pectus excavatum,and to supply important basis of comprehensive treatment scheme of Biopsychosocial. 【Methods】 The data extracted from 57 voluntary patients by Symptom Checklist 90(SCL-90)and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) effectively in department of thoracic surgery of our hospital between 2009~2011,and it was compared with Chinese norm for students and analyzed with linear correlation. 【Results】 The scores of 5 factors including somatisation,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,anxiety and hostility in SCL-90 were higher than those of norm(P＜0.05).The score of Neuroticism(N) and Extraversion(E)in EPQ was higher than that of the norm for students(P＜0.05).The N of EPQ was positively correlated with all factors in SCL-90,the E was negatively correlated with 6 factors including somatisation,compulsion,interpersonal sensitivity,depression,anxiety and paranoia,the P was positively correlated with 2 factors including interpersonal sensitivity and depression,the L was negatively correlated with 5 factors including compulsion,anxiety,hostility,panic and paranoia. 【Conclusions】 The level of mental health of patients with pectus excavatum is worse than those of healthy people,and the character of neuroticism and extraversion may be its personality background.So it is important for the patients making psychological test before the operation to develop a reasonable treatment.