Positive emotion refers to the emotion associated with the satisfaction of individual needs and accompanied by pleasant subjective experience. Positive emotions can expand the sequence of college students' individual instantaneous thinking activities, help them build lasting individual resources, help them improve their physical flexibility and psychological resilience, enable them to better adapt to the campus environment and social environment, and improve their skills in dealing with unfavorable situations and negative emotions. With the deepening of psychological research in China, the promotion of positive emotions to college students' mental health has attracted the attention of people from all walks of life. Positive emotions are closely related to college students' activities. When the needs of college students are met, there will be positive emotions, on the contrary, there will be negative emotions. People's positive emotions mainly include happiness, excitement, joy and satisfaction. Psychological research shows that positive emotions are closely related to people's mental health problems, especially for improving college students' psychological quality, promoting their mental health and avoiding their psychological problems.
2. The relationship between college students' positive emotions and mental health.
With the continuous progress of science and technology, psychology studies the relationship between positive emotions and college students' mental health more deeply. Positive emotions can help students build up self-confidence, improve their self-esteem and self-reliance, improve their quality of life, and reduce the pressure of study and employment. With the continuous reform of China's social system and the rapid development of market economy, the employment situation of college students is becoming increasingly severe and the competitive pressure is gradually increasing. Under the situation that the global employment situation is not optimistic, the mental health problems of college students are becoming more and more serious, which seriously restricts their physical and mental development. In the process of university teaching, teachers should give full play to the regulating role of positive emotions, enhance the positive emotional experience of college students, guide students to form healthy psychological quality, and thus promote the all-round development of college students.
3. Positive emotions promote college students' mental health.
3. 1 Positive emotions promote the intellectual development of college students
Positive psychological emotions can enhance the negative pressure ability of college students in the learning process and play a positive role in promoting the intellectual development of college students. College students have just left high school, and they will inevitably feel some pressure in the face of new things and brand-new environment in the university. Positive emotions can enhance college students' ability to resist stress, expand their ability to know and do, and enhance their personal ability. Positive emotions can help college students overcome their thinking inertia in the learning process, make them think from a higher angle, and reduce the probability of making mistakes in the process of knowledge learning and knowledge memory.
3.2 Positive emotions help to eliminate negative emotions of college students.
University is a small society. Students should know how to express themselves in college and correctly handle the relationship between study, life and work. With the accelerating pace of human life, the pressure on college students is increasing, and the expectations of all walks of life and parents are also rising. In addition, college courses have also brought some pressure to students, and these pressures have been accumulating, which has led to different degrees of psychological problems in the development of college students and seriously hindered their all-round development. If students are surrounded by negative emotions for a long time, they will be agitated and depressed over time, which is not only not conducive to their work and study during college, but may even affect their future performance at work. Positive emotions and negative emotions are relative positive emotions, which can help college students release their depression and promote the healthy development of body and mind.
3.3 Positive emotions are conducive to improving college students' happiness.
With the rapid development of economy, the uncertainty in life is gradually increasing. Contemporary people are always in the process of constant change, and college students will face the possibility of environmental changes at any time during their growth, which poses new challenges to the healthy growth of college students. Positive emotions are conducive to improving college students' social adaptability and learning adaptability, so that college students can face the changes of the surrounding environment with a positive attitude and actively respond to the development of various emergencies. With the improvement of college students' adaptability, students will face life with a positive attitude and their happiness will be improved.
4. How to play a positive role in promoting college students' mental health
4. 1 Enrich teaching mode
The cultivation of college students' psychological quality can not be limited to the form of offering psychological courses, but also induce students' positive emotions through rich forms. Teachers should closely combine the cultivation of positive emotions with students' psychological quality education. For example, in college Chinese class, teachers can cultivate students' positive emotions by telling stories of celebrities, thus helping students form good psychological quality; In the ideological and political class, teachers should help students to establish a correct outlook on life and values and promote the formation of students' good psychological quality.
4.2 Give full play to the positive role of teachers
In the teaching process of colleges and universities, teachers are the main body of teaching and students are the main body of learning. In psychological education activities, teachers should actively communicate with students and establish a harmonious relationship between teachers and students, which requires teachers to give full play to their roles and do the following work conscientiously. First, teachers should have good emotional adjustment ability, make timely and effective adjustments in the face of any unexpected situation in the teaching process, and always convey positive emotions to students; Second, teachers should set an example for students, keep positive emotions at all times in the process of teacher-student communication, and guide students to form good psychological quality; Third, teachers should respect students, treat them as friends, draw closer to them and help them solve psychological problems.
conclusion
The psychological development of college students is not yet mature, and there are some differences in their cognitive state, so they may not be able to know themselves correctly and objectively. Being in a contradictory state will also lead to a lack of reasonable understanding of others and the environment, and will also lead to poor interpersonal relationships and I don't know how to deal with them. Therefore, in the process of university teaching, teachers should give full play to the guiding role and enrich the psychological education model. Only in this way can we help students cultivate positive emotions, promote their intellectual development, eliminate their negative emotions, improve their happiness and make them grow up healthily.