1, which expands the circle of interpersonal communication and helps to establish good interpersonal relationships.
Interpersonal relationship is closely related to individual mental health and helps to maintain individual mental health. The openness, popularity, virtuality and directness of the network make it easier for network interpersonal communication to break through the limitations of interpersonal factors such as age, gender, status, identity and appearance in traditional communication methods, and provide convenience for interpersonal communication. Through the Internet, people can communicate directly without politeness, inquiry, vigilance and emotional and moral responsibility. At the same time, due to the indirect and virtual characteristics of network communication, it opens the door for college students with introverted, shy and weak social skills to communicate with each other.
2. Strengthening the subjective consciousness is conducive to enhancing college students' self-confidence and promoting the development of their personality and ability.
Electronic websites in the network, personal homepages and personal websites of campus networks provide a "virtual environment" for college students to show themselves and develop their personalities. In such an environment, people's subjectivity and creativity are fully exerted, and individuals can play their favorite roles without scruple, freely express and show their thoughts and feelings, and publicize their hidden personality in real life. Through the cognitive experience of social roles in the virtual world, we can think about the responsibilities and obligations of social roles in the real world, experience inner conflicts, deepen our understanding of society and others, and realize our social roles through self-control and self-education, so as to improve our self-confidence, strengthen our sense of responsibility for society and continuously improve our mental health.
3. The network provides a rich information environment, which helps to stimulate the creative thinking of college students.
Because of its rich content, large amount of information, wide influence, complete functions, convenient communication, open consciousness and relaxed atmosphere, the network has greatly satisfied the curiosity of college students about new things, enabled them to know and understand more and wider new things and knowledge, broadened their cognitive horizons, stimulated their imagination and curiosity, provided them with an environment that broke the shackles of traditional linear thinking, and helped to effectively cultivate college students' creative thinking.
4. Internet provides the possibility of psychological catharsis and seeking professional psychological assistance, which helps to maintain individual mental health.
The development of society requires college students to have perfect comprehensive quality. Many pressures such as study and employment make college students prone to negative emotions such as nervousness, fear, anxiety and depression, and their mental health is affected. College students can vent their inner bad emotions and relieve their psychological pressure by chatting and talking. These virtual online exchanges provide a new way for college students to express their feelings and vent their bad emotions, and play a good psychological counseling role to some extent. Because these special psychological websites or homepages are convenient, fast and confidential, they are widely favored by college students and have really played a positive role in maintaining their mental health to some extent.
Second, the negative impact of the Internet age on college students' mental health
1, interpersonal communication has shrunk and communication skills have declined.
The university stage is an important period for the formation of college students' interpersonal communication ability and interpersonal relationship. Due to the huge difference between online communication and real communication, the opportunities for face-to-face communication between people are greatly reduced, and people are replaced by frequent contact with computers. This kind of virtual online communication is sometimes difficult to form authentic, safe and reliable interpersonal relationships. Being infatuated with the Internet greatly reduces the opportunities for college students to participate in social activities such as group activities and social practice. The enthusiasm in virtual communication makes some students alienate from real interpersonal communication and lack patience with real interpersonal communication, resulting in their real interpersonal communication obstacles and role dislocation. Their interpersonal feelings gradually shrink and weaken, tend to social isolation and personal isolation, loneliness will become stronger and stronger, and their communication ability will also decline, which will lead to escape and fear of real interpersonal communication, seriously affect their academic life and induce mental illness.
2, easy to produce bad emotional experience, emotional indifference.
The emotional experience of college students is extremely rich, intense, sensitive, complex and unstable. If you surf the Internet for a long time and indulge in the virtual world, it may greatly hinder college students from forming a stable and good social emotional experience through personal social practice. With the continuous expansion of the online population, online dating has gradually become an important part of college students, and the emotional trauma caused by online dating is also on the rise. All these situations are easy to make college students become withdrawn, selfish, indifferent and unsocial, resulting in bad emotional experiences such as anxiety, tension and depression.
3. Indulge in the network, leading to self-division.
With the extensive use of the Internet, people are increasingly dependent on it. When college students get more happy experiences from the virtual world than from the real world, they may inject more time and energy into online communication. Whenever I encounter setbacks and difficulties in real life, I always think of avoiding or comforting in the network. Internet covers up real life and widens the gap between "real life" and "virtual society". They are eager to pursue a virtual perfect life on the internet, but passively treat or escape from the real world. The conflict between "real me", "real me" and "online me" in the self system often leads to dual or multiple personality problems.
4. Internet pornography is rampant, which easily makes college students have abnormal sexual psychology.
At present, sexual health education in China lags behind the actual demand, and there is little sexual knowledge from teachers and parents. The sexual knowledge of college students mainly comes from the network, and some sexual knowledge in the network is often poor and biased, which can not guarantee the scientific nature of sex education. Due to the global and super-regional nature of information dissemination on the Internet, there are a lot of pornographic and violent information on the Internet. The two-way nature of the computer network makes these pornographic contents easier to spread, and the means are more hidden and faster. College students are in adolescence, with high sexual awareness, great curiosity about pornographic content, often poor self-control and lack of relevant sexual knowledge. Faced with unhealthy sexual information and ideas on the internet, it is easy to cause abnormal development of their sexual psychology.