The psychological quality of contemporary college students not only affects their own development, but also relates to the improvement of the quality of the whole nation and the cultivation of cross-century talents. A survey on the main qualities of contemporary people shows that the quality of contemporary people can't meet the needs of social progress and development. What they lack most is psychological quality, which is characterized by weak will, insufficient ability to bear setbacks, insufficient adaptability and self-reliance, lack of competition and crisis awareness, lack of self-confidence and strong dependence. The reason is that education does not attach importance to the cultivation and shaping of people's psychological quality. Among college students, some people almost lose their desire and confidence to engage in all actions because of self-denial and self-exclusion; Some people have suicidal thoughts or self-destructive behaviors due to failed exams or frustrated love; Some people are cynical or desperate because of the unsatisfactory reality; Some people avoid group self-isolation because of disharmony in interpersonal relationships. A large number of surveys show that the main reason for the high incidence of college students in China is psychological disorder, and psychological diseases have become the main diseases of college students. Specific manifestations are terror, anxiety, compulsion, depression and emotional crisis, neurasthenia and so on. Our school surveys the mental health of freshmen every year. The results show that a large number of college students have poor psychological quality every year, and there are different degrees of obstacles. Four students from the College of Civil Engineering and Water Conservancy in 2002 dropped out of school because of psychological problems in the first year. The four of them are emotionally unstable because: 1, the pursuit of girls is rejected; 2. I have long suspected that my classmates talk about themselves behind their backs and despise themselves, so I dare not face others; 3. Losing confidence in life goals, feeling depressed and depressed; 4, manic, abnormal behavior. Finally, I can't continue my studies. The common psychological problems of college students are also manifested in environmental pressure, self-awareness obstacles, interpersonal communication obstacles, emotional instability, emotional maladjustment and so on. The psychological problems of contemporary college students can not be ignored.
Second, the causes of psychological problems of contemporary college students
On the one hand, the problems of college students' psychological quality are related to their own psychological development stage, and at the same time, they are inseparable from their social environment. College students are generally between the ages of seventeen and eighteen and twenty-three, which is in the middle of adolescence and is the most dramatic period of psychological changes in life. Due to immature psychological development and unstable emotions, psychological conflicts sometimes occur when facing a series of physiological, psychological and social adaptation topics, such as the conflict between ideal and reality, the conflict between reason and emotion, the conflict between independence and dependence, the conflict between self-esteem and inferiority, the conflict between lack of knowledge and discrimination, the conflict between competition and stability, and so on. If these conflicts and contradictions are not effectively channeled and reasonably resolved, they will form psychological barriers over time, especially for contemporary college students. In order to win in the fierce competition for the college entrance examination, they almost devoted themselves to their studies. Over-protection of parents, examination-oriented education in schools and lack of life experience make these students psychologically fragile, weak-willed, and lack of tolerance for setbacks. Small setbacks in study, life, making friends, falling in love and choosing a job are enough for some of them to bear. From the perspective of environmental factors, the intensification of competition and the acceleration of the pace of life have created a sense of urgency and pressure; Individuals have more opportunities to choose their goals in life, and the contradictions that are difficult to take into account aggravate inner conflicts and produce anxiety. In all these cases, all kinds of confusion, confusion, anxiety and nervousness caused by inadaptability to the changing environment have obviously increased, and the psychological impact brought by social changes to growing college students is stronger and more complicated than ever before. Various physiological factors, psychological confusion and social factors are intertwined, which easily leads to the unbalanced psychological development of college students. People with poor psychological quality naturally can't adapt to the environment of high speed, high technology and high competition, and heavy psychological load can easily lead to various psychological diseases.
1, objectively
Compared with middle school, great changes have taken place in study, life and interpersonal relationship in university.
1) The tasks, contents and methods of learning have changed. Middle school students learn basic knowledge in order to prepare for further study or employment in the future; The purpose of studying professional knowledge in universities is to mold students into senior professionals for the construction of the motherland. Middle school courses only take a few college entrance examination courses for a few years, and middle schools have teacher guidance every day, day after day; Universities should have strong self-study ability and think and solve problems independently. New college students often don't adapt to this changing study life and don't know how to adapt and control their time.
2) The living environment has changed. Some freshmen have the experience of sending students to middle school, but most of them still go to school and live with their families after school. After entering the university, the class group becomes the main living environment and the dormitory becomes the main living area. It is really a problem for those who are used to relying on their parents and family. This change has brought them some mental pressure.
3) Interpersonal relationships are more complicated than in middle school. Most freshmen live in places where middle schools are concentrated. From primary school to middle school, there are some partners who have been together since childhood. The head teacher served for several years and met every day. Familiar faces, similar languages and customs constitute their familiar living environment. Entering the university, people around you come from different regions, have never met before, have different languages and customs; Students have changed from being lively and intimate to being unfamiliar, making it difficult to talk about ideas. This is extremely unaccustomed to freshmen who are only seventeen or eighteen years old. So they will miss home, classmates and feel lonely every holiday.
4) The attitude towards social work has changed. Most of the work and activities in middle schools are carried out under the guidance of teachers and undertaken by a few students. The university forces students to manage themselves. There are many things in the class and many club activities. Students should not only do their own study well, but also undertake certain social work and care about class collective construction. Freshmen often don't adapt to this heavy workload, lack work initiative, and don't know how to manage their own affairs in their posts, so they feel great pressure.
2. Subjective aspects
There is a contradiction between the dependence of new material life and the independent consciousness of spiritual life; There is a contradiction between the increasing consciousness of self-reliance and self-improvement in subjective desire and the possibility and ability in objective conditions. These two reasons can easily make freshmen who can't adapt to the new environment have the following psychological problems:
(1) is blind complacency and narcissism. Because they passed the college entrance examination, teachers praised them, classmates envied them, relatives and friends praised them, and parents celebrated them. Some students gradually relaxed their fighting spirit in this narcissism and relaxed all day, thinking that they were top students in middle schools and their college grades would not be bad, thus relaxing their demands on themselves and being blindly complacent.
(2) Disappointment and falling out of favor. Some students idealize and mystify university life before entering the university, and feel that the gap between ideal and reality is too big after entering the university, which leads to disappointment. Some students used to be top students in middle schools, and they are the key protection objects of families and schools. When they enter the university, they will feel out of favor.
(3) relax and rest. Some students think that being admitted to the university is an iron rice bowl. The goal of long-term struggle has been achieved, psychologically satisfied, and physically hoped to have a rest. In addition, after entering the university, the goal of struggle is unclear, the adaptability is not strong, and the motivation of competition is weakened, resulting in the psychology of "relaxing and resting", which can no longer inspire the courage to advance.
(4) it is timid. Because of the change of the environment, I hesitate not to look back, not to participate in social activities, not to patronize the sports ground. Besides studying all day, I have nothing to do and live a single life, which hinders the development of my personality.