How do college students adjust their emotions?

Lead: Emotion and emotion are an important part of people's psychological activities and an important indicator to measure mental health, which affects our study, work and life.

How do college students adjust their emotions? 1. What is emotion?

Emotion is a comprehensive psychological and physiological state of human feelings, thoughts and behaviors. It is a psychological response to external stimuli and an incidental physiological response, such as joy, anger, sadness and joy. Emotion is a person's subjective experience and feeling, which is often related to mood, temperament, character and temperament. Supplementary definition: matter moves in a limited range, reflecting the performance of thinking changes. The collective name of all information such as visual signals, sound signals and tactile signals generated by thinking through physical activities.

Second, the difference between emotion and emotion

First of all, emotions appear earlier, which is related to people's physiological needs; Emotions appear later, mostly related to people's social needs. Babies have emotional manifestations such as crying and laughing at birth, and social cognition is related to physiological needs such as food, water, warmth and drowsiness. Love is produced with the maturity and development of the mind in early childhood, which is mostly related to social needs such as knowledge, communication, artistic accomplishment and life pursuit. So emotions are shared by people and animals, but only people have emotions.

Secondly, emotions are situational and temporary; Emotion is deep and stable. Emotion is often caused by things around us, and it often changes with the change of occasions, people and things. Therefore, some people's emotional expression is often moody and difficult to last. Emotion can be said to be a stable attitude experience formed on the basis of many emotional experiences, such as love and respect for a person, which may be lifelong. Because of this, emotional characteristics are often regarded as an important aspect of evaluating people's personality and moral quality.

Finally, emotional impulse has obvious external manifestations; Emotions are more subtle. People often can't control themselves under the influence of emotions, dancing when they are happy, depressed when they are depressed, and furious when they are angry. Emotion is more of an inner experience, profound and lasting, and it is not easy to show it.

Third, the emotional characteristics of college students

1, emotional richness

From the development of self-awareness, college students have more self-experience, strong self-esteem needs, and are easy to feel inferior and conceited. From the social point of view, the communication scope of college students is expanding day by day, and there are frequent exchanges among classmates, friends and teachers. Some college students have begun to fall in love, and their emotions are more delicate and complicated. Through various activities, college students learn about society and social morality, and have a deeper thinking about their identity, role, ambition and value, and develop their sense of reason, beauty and collective honor.

2. Emotional instability

Because college students' outlook on life and values have not been completely finalized, their cognitive ability needs to be improved. Their emotional activities are often intense but not lasting, and change with the change of cognitive standards. Emotional change is a common phenomenon of college students' emotions, which may be a storm after a calm. College students' emotions tend to go from one extreme to the other. When they are happy, they get carried away and look at everything pleasing to the eye. When they are depressed, they are disheartened, uncomfortable and emotionally unstable.

Step 3 hide your emotions

With the improvement of knowledge level and the enrichment of ideological connotation, college students are more obscure in emotional reflection. They have the ability to suppress and control their anger, sadness and other emotions in specific situations, but conceal their true emotions, forming the characteristics that their external performance is inconsistent with their internal experience. They will express their emotions according to certain conditions, such as being obviously bored with one thing or one person, but for various reasons, they may show a good or indifferent attitude.

4. Emotional impulse

Some psychologists describe adolescence as? Big winds and waves? Period. College students' emotions are often expressed quickly and strongly, and they are often excited and full of lofty sentiments because of a trivial matter. The impulsiveness of college students' emotions is generally manifested in their dissatisfaction with the external environment or others, their emotions are out of control, and their words and actions are extremely aggressive. If it is not guided, it will bring harm to college students themselves and society.

Five, how to carry out emotional adjustment

1, automatic control

It is an individual's active mastery of his own psychology and behavior. It is an individual's comprehensive ability to consciously choose a goal, appropriately control and adjust his own behavior, resist impulse, resist temptation and persistently ensure the realization of the goal without external supervision. When some negative emotions are aroused, some college students will cry, shout, hit people, swear, and even take some extreme actions. At this time, you should calm down and consciously control your emotions. We should first carefully consider the pros and cons of taking this kind of behavior, and then choose an appropriate behavior to express our emotions.

Step 2 pay attention to transfer

Emotional adjustment's method shifts attention from the stimulating situation that leads to bad emotional reaction to other things or other activities. When you are in a bad mood, you should turn your attention to what you are interested in, or temporarily avoid the sad place. For example, go out for a walk, watch movies, listen to jokes, read humorous stories, play ball games, play chess, chat with friends, change the environment and so on. These activities help to calm the mood and find new happiness in the activities. This method, on the one hand, stops the role of bad stimulation and prevents the generalization and spread of bad emotions; On the other hand, by participating in new activities, especially those that interest you, you can achieve the purpose of enhancing positive emotions.

Step 3 comfort yourself

This kind of emotion regulation method is mainly to find an excuse or reason to reduce inner disappointment when a person pursues something and can't achieve it, so as to alleviate contradictions and conflicts and eliminate anxiety, depression, trouble and disappointment. People can't go smoothly everywhere, and they will encounter difficulties and setbacks in study, employment and interpersonal communication. When they still can't change the situation despite their best efforts, they can comfort themselves appropriately, convince themselves to make appropriate concessions, and attribute the failure to objective conditions and reality. At the same time, they should have the courage to admit and accept the reality. Often used? Winning or losing is a common occurrence for military strategists? 、? An old frontiersman loses his horse—a blessing in disguise. 、? Bad things become good things? If you comfort yourself, you can get rid of troubles, ease conflicts, eliminate anxiety, depression and disappointment, achieve the purpose of self-motivation, sum up experiences and learn lessons, and help maintain emotional peace and stability.

Step 4 vent appropriately

When an emotional attack occurs, there is a hidden energy in the body. Excessive depression will only aggravate emotional distress and accumulate, which is harmful to physical and mental health. When college students have negative emotions such as anxiety, boredom and depression, it is beneficial to their physical and mental health to not just hide their conscience in their hearts and give them an appropriate vent to ease and improve their depression.

There are two kinds of emotional venting: direct venting is to express emotions directly against the stimuli that trigger emotions. When direct venting is not good for others or yourself, you can use indirect venting, such as finding a quiet place to abuse, attack and harass people loudly; Or pour out grievances and grievances to relatives and friends; Or vent through exercise, labor, etc., or when you feel that life pressure is too great, you can record negative emotions in words by keeping a diary. Once the venting is over, the mood will calm down and the negative emotions will be alleviated.