Mental health problems of contemporary college students

Mental health problems of contemporary college students

Contemporary college students face many life problems, so what are their mental health problems? The following are the contemporary problems that I recommend to everyone. Regarding the mental health problems of college students, I hope it can help everyone.

(1) The mental health status and main problems of college students

The "Survey Report on the Psychological Quality of College Students in Beijing Colleges and Universities" in the first half of 2000 shows that through A survey of 6,000 college students in 23 universities found that 16.5% of students had moderate or above psychological problems. This shows that the mental health problems of college students in our country are serious and must attract the attention of all sectors of society. According to the author's investigation, the current mental health problems among college students are more prominent in the following aspects:

1. Difficulty in adapting to the environment

College students enter university amid fierce competition. There is a big gap between reality and ideals. For example, the school is not as perfect as imagined, the major is not as ideal as imagined, learning is not as easy as imagined, and I am not as outstanding as I was in middle school. The intertwining of pride and inferiority complex, the contradiction between not wanting to learn and being forced to learn, has caused emotional fluctuations and depression, thus producing negative emotions such as aversion to learning and depression.

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2. Disharmonious interpersonal relationships

In terms of interpersonal relationships, first-year college students often have problems More often, because they are faced with a process of getting to know others again and establishing interpersonal relationships. Due to the lack of experience and methods of interpersonal communication, some freshmen have difficulties in interpersonal communication, resulting in feelings of loneliness, lack of security, anxiety, loneliness, loss and distraction, etc. This makes some of them feel empty, bored and confused. , I have lost motivation in study and life, and am doing nothing all day long, just muddle along.

3. Emotional confusion

It is common for college students to fall in love on campus. Some students are psychologically empty and use this as a pastime; some students are forced to fall in love due to their psychological need for interaction with the opposite sex, but many psychological problems arise in love. For example, some girls are invited on dates by boys one after another when they first enter school, and they fall into distress because they don’t know how to deal with them; some students feel ashamed because they see people around them making friends; some students suffer from long-term mental illness due to falling out of love. Depression and even suicide; some students' heavier psychological burden is psychological problems.

4. The psychological imbalance caused by differences in economic status. The implementation of the college fee system has caused students to increase their study expenses and personal living expenses after entering school. This has affected the economic status of many families. A big change. College students have to consider their own and family's financial problems. This problem is realistic and complex, and it is very difficult to solve. College students who lack experience in the world often feel at a loss. In addition, students come from all over the world, and the gap in family economic status is much more obvious than in middle school. Faced with this situation, students with poor economic conditions will inevitably form huge psychological pressure and cause psychological imbalance.

5 Pressure brought about by competition in job search and career selection

In today’s society, the original graduation distribution under the planned economy system has been replaced by independent career selection under the market economy system. As the grades increase, due to differences in professional direction, social scope, and family background, the differences between individual college students in terms of employment concepts, career opportunities, etc. become larger and larger. In the face of fierce competition, some college students show a lack of self-confidence. Psychological problems such as having high ambitions and low ambitions, fear of society, etc.

(2) Causes of mental health problems among college students

The reasons for the above-mentioned mental health problems among college students are complex and diverse, including subjective physiological and psychological factors, as well as objective family factors. , school and social environment factors.

1 Objective reasons

(1) Exam-oriented education and the one-child policy. my country's current college entrance examination system makes middle school education basically revolve around the college entrance examination. Schools attach great importance to the teaching of college entrance examination subject knowledge, but ignore the cultivation and improvement of students' quality. In addition, only children are highly dependent and have poor self-care ability. After entering college, I was at a loss and found it difficult to cope.

(2) The pressure of social competition. Our country is currently in the transition period from a planned economy to a market economy. Competition is increasing day by day, especially the implementation of various reform measures involving the vital interests of college students. This has made the social environment faced by college students more complex and diverse, which has also caused problems for college students. Considerable psychological pressure.

(3) The influence of bad trends and various harmful ideas in society. Various information from society enters campus through various media, and it is difficult to distinguish between good and bad. Due to their low ability to distinguish right from wrong, some students inevitably accept some negative information while accepting some beneficial information.

(4) Ideological and political education is ineffective and schools lack mental health education. The ideological education in schools basically stays at the macro level of slogans and slogans, lacking the necessary detail and depth. From primary and secondary schools to universities, students lack good psychological education. Schools only focus on cultivating students' knowledge and abilities, but do not teach them how to adapt to society and become better social beings. In this regard, the school's work is not yet in place.

2. Subjective reasons

(1) Psychological development is not mature enough, and ideals are out of touch with reality. At present, college students in our country are generally around 18 years old when they enter school. After 4-5 years of university study, they graduate around 22 years old. This period is the period of late adolescence and early adulthood. At this stage, college students are in a process of rapid development and change, both physically and psychologically. They are full of ideals and fantasies, and are full of longing for the future. However, in the process of realizing their ideals, they often put forward excessive requirements for the conditions and environment of study, work, life and interpersonal relationships, ignore the objective constraints, and expect everything to be ready-made and smooth. Once they encounter it in reality With some setbacks, they become disillusioned.

(2) Imperfect self-awareness and frequent cognitive biases. A person establishes a healthy and coordinated self-integration based on self-esteem and self-confidence, that is, having a good self-awareness, which is the psychological basis for coping with reality. Most of the psychological distress of college students is related to self-awareness, such as the inability to objectively understand themselves, over- or under-evaluation of self, inability to accurately position themselves, and inability to independently integrate information from all aspects, etc.

(3) Lack of coping strategies and coping abilities. Among today's college students, a large proportion of them have coping strategies for life events that are far from commensurate with the demands of life on them. When they encounter certain things that are difficult to handle, although they can analyze their own psychological changes and internal and external causes, in the end they often end up in a situation of "I know", but what should I do? This limitation in strategies and abilities prevents them from effectively handling various life events, actively facing various pressures, and being unable to quickly restore their psychological balance. Instead, they are often in a state of intense stress. If things go on like this, it can easily lead to psychological disorders.

(3) Countermeasures for the mental health problems of college students

The current mental health status of college students has become an important factor affecting the quality of talent training, restricting the realization of training goals. For this reason, it is imperative to strengthen mental health education and improve the psychological quality of college students.

1. Strengthen ideological and political education and improve the overall quality of college students

We must clearly see that with the expansion of college enrollment and the establishment of the socialist market economic system, college students are increasingly concerned about the existence of society. There is no clear understanding of some phenomena, and there is a vague understanding in thinking, which creates unnecessary psychological burden.

In the stage of economic system transition, the socialist market economy can stimulate the enterprising spirit of college students and improve their enthusiasm for study and work. However, the market economy will also have negative effects. If ideological and political work is relaxed, bad ideas in society will take advantage of it. , if they neglect learning and moral cultivation, it will seriously affect the cultivation of their psychological quality and personality. To this end, colleges and universities must strengthen political and ideological education, constantly optimize the moral education work team, improve various management systems, and when colleges and universities expand enrollment and increase students, promptly equip and supplement management teams, and promptly solve problems existing among students.

2. Carry out various forms of psychological quality education activities and popularize mental health knowledge

Provide elective courses, compulsory courses or lectures such as "college students' mental health" and "health psychology", etc. Carry out psychological training to help college students master the knowledge and methods of maintaining mental health. The specific content should include: learning psychology education, emotional education, interpersonal guidance, sound personality cultivation, frustration resistance cultivation and students' self-psychological cultivation, etc. Mental health education classes should avoid pure theoretical indoctrination and should adopt a combination of theory and practice to carry out psychological training activities. Psychological training refers to enhancing students’ frustration resistance and self-confidence through behavioral exercises such as social identity, self-identification, and role-playing. For example, in response to the adaptation problem of new students, the design of classroom content can include: interpersonal communication, first impression effect, separation experience, art of communication, self-exploration, emotional expression and control, solidarity and cooperation, etc. Allow students to gain new feelings in classroom training and role-playing, and bring the feelings back to life practice to consolidate, thereby improving psychological adaptability.

By giving lectures to students, we inform young students about the psychological problems, mental diseases that may occur in young college students, as well as prevention and correction methods. It is necessary to use various forms of media and means such as wall posters, radio, television, newspapers, pamphlets, etc. to widely publicize mental health knowledge. It is necessary for students to have a preliminary understanding of their own psychology and learn various psychological self-coping and help-seeking abilities.

Provide mental health knowledge education to faculty and staff. Students spend more than half of their day in contact with teachers, and teachers' mental health directly affects students. If the teacher has an imperfect personality, is emotionally unstable, and is moody, it will also affect students whose personalities have not yet been finalized. But conversely, a teacher's words or actions may change a student's negative psychology and stimulate the student's interest in learning and motivation for life.

3. Carry out regular mental health surveys and research work

In order to have a comprehensive understanding of students’ psychological conditions, it is necessary to classify the sources of students of different grades and genders, and consciously Carry out investigation and research on students' psychological problems, summarize and sort them out, and adopt positive and proactive methods and measures to overcome possible problems, such as: investigating the adaptability of new students to their living and learning environments; 2 and 3 First-year students should be concerned about problems that arise in their studies and interactions after adapting to the environment; senior students should focus on issues such as adapting to society and strengthening their adaptation to future careers. In terms of gender, boys are relatively strong and impulsive, while girls are relatively gentle and introverted. It is necessary to study the differences in these psychological characteristics of male and female students. Moreover, it is necessary to strengthen the exchange of information between colleges and universities and between departments to prevent possible problems among students and exchange measures and methods to deal with psychological problems. At the same time, we should also strengthen research on ways to discover problems and methods of solving problems, and form an information network system with the psychological counseling center as the core, the department management cadre team as the hub, and the backbone of students as the information source.

4. Create a good campus cultural environment

The university campus is the most important place for college students to study and live. The school should provide college students with a good and relaxed psychological atmosphere and a beautiful campus environment. Serious, lively and relaxed work and rest arrangements, colorful, lively and interesting amateur cultural life, and harmonious and healthy interpersonal relationships can all become a psychological background that adds interest and color to college students' study and life.

On the contrary, the dull pace of life and the dull and depressing campus atmosphere are not conducive to cultivating the healthy psychological quality of college students.

5. Effectively carry out mental health consultation activities

By carrying out psychological consultation activities, students’ psychological barriers, psychological conflicts, psychological confusions and other psychological diseases can be promptly cleared and help them overcome their psychological problems. Dilemma. This kind of communication through face-to-face, phone, letter and other forms is more direct, cordial and targeted. Colleges and universities should create conditions for mental health consultation, set up psychological consultation centers, staff full-time and part-time staff with rich experience, strong professionalism and high moral character, and improve various service facilities, such as computers and telephones. Establish a reception system and insist on 24-hour duty. Improve various information service networks, give full play to the role of student management cadres and student cadres in psychological counseling, and detect students with psychological problems, especially students in psychological crisis, to report early and intervene early. If conditions permit, social help hotlines can also be used to help students solve their psychological problems as quickly as possible. In order to effectively carry out mental health counseling activities, the mental health status of new students should be investigated and student mental health files should be established every year after they enroll. On the one hand, this is conducive to timely grasping the psychological development status of college students, understanding students' personality characteristics and mental health conditions, so as to carry out targeted teaching, management, moral education and other work in schools; on the other hand, it is also conducive to timely discovery of psychological problems among students. disorders and mental illness, so that they can receive psychological counseling and psychotherapy in a timely manner. ?;