I. External environmental factors
1, environmental change
The university stage is a period of significant changes in the living environment. Freshmen enter a relatively unfamiliar university campus from a familiar middle school or family environment. The stress brought by this environmental change may lead to adaptability problems and increase psychological stress response.
2. Academic expectations and stress
During college, students are faced with higher requirements for autonomous learning and fierce academic competition, and have higher expectations for the future employment situation and personal achievements. Excessive academic expectations may lead to negative emotions such as anxiety and depression.
3. Socio-cultural and economic environment
Social environment factors, such as public opinion, bad information on the Internet and severe employment situation, have an impact on college students' mental health, such as the pressure brought by cyber violence, gender discrimination and the increasing employment pressure after enrollment expansion.
Second, internal individual factors.
1, self-awareness and development
College students are in the critical period of identity formation, and the development of self-cognition and the troubles encountered in this process, such as the changes of self-worth and self-esteem, may become the internal driving force affecting their mental health.
2. Psychological conflict
Including the gap between ideal and reality, interpersonal relationship handling, personal emotional needs and other possible inner conflicts, long-term psychological conflicts, if not effectively resolved, may lead to psychological imbalance.
3. Life events
Sudden life events, such as the breakdown of love relationship, the death of relatives and friends, major setbacks, etc., may have an impact on college students' mental health.
4. Family and school environment
Family upbringing, parent-child relationship, school learning atmosphere, teacher-student relationship and communication between classmates will all affect the psychological state of college students, and a good support system will help improve their psychological resilience.
Methods to improve college students' psychological quality and self-regulation ability
First, to carry out mental health education courses
Incorporating mental health education into compulsory courses will not only help popularize mental health knowledge, but also enable students to deeply understand the causes of psychological problems and coping strategies. Through systematic study of mental health course, students will learn to identify and solve their own psychological problems and improve their self-regulation ability.
Second, organize mental health activities.
Holding lectures, workshops and group counseling is an effective way to promote students' mental health. These activities provide opportunities for students to practice and interact, so that college students can learn how to cope with psychological pressure and improve their psychological quality in a relaxed atmosphere. Using the network platform to carry out activities such as mental health knowledge contest can attract more students to participate.