How to cultivate a positive and healthy social mentality?
The "Proposal of the Central Committee on Formulating the Twelfth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" adopted by the Fifth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China puts forward: "Strengthen humanistic care, pay attention to psychological counseling, and cultivate an enterprising, rational, peaceful, open and inclusive social mentality." Under the new situation of deepening reform and opening up, facing the people's growing demands for various interests and increasingly prominent social contradictions, how to cultivate a positive and healthy social mentality is an urgent task before us. We asked Sun Shuping, executive vice chairman and senior political engineer of Xicheng District Social Science Association in Beijing, to talk about his views on cultivating a positive and healthy social mentality. The editor's social mentality reflects the social atmosphere, people's ideal pursuit and mental state, and affects people's behavior to a certain extent. A positive, healthy, optimistic, open-minded and enterprising attitude can provide a solid psychological guarantee and strong spiritual motivation for personal and social progress; Negative, pessimistic, distorted, decadent and gloomy bad mentality not only affects personal life and future, but also affects the healthy development of society. Generally speaking, the social mentality of contemporary China people has tended to be open and enterprising, rational and mature, pluralistic and inclusive. However, it cannot be ignored that social mentality is still in a dynamic process of constant adjustment, adaptation and differentiation. The social mentality triggered, gathered, evolved and gradually involved by various subjective and objective factors does not meet the basic requirements of building a harmonious socialist society and the needs of people's healthy physical and mental development and happy life. First, the channel of interest appeal is not smooth, which is easy to worsen the social mentality. Any country, any society and any era will have the interests of the people. Psychological counseling comes from interest counseling, and whether it can effectively clear the channels of public opinion appeal is a necessary means to appease, improve and adjust the social mentality. When the legal interest guidance channel is blocked, the public's social mentality will change greatly, and they will feel disappointed and angry. Then, they will look for other ways to express their interests, which will lead to the evolution of normal interest expectations into a deteriorating social mentality. Second, urbanization and large-scale population movement are likely to cause conflicts and chaos. Sociological research shows that people's migration and relocation will bring about many changes such as value collision, cultural conflict, and unsuitable lifestyle. When the relocated people adapt to the new local culture, their horizons will be broader. On the other hand, it is difficult to accept and integrate into the local culture, which is likely to cause strong discomfort and serious mental illness. In China, the process of urbanization will continue to advance, and the differences between urban and rural areas and foreign cultures will easily cause people's mental imbalance. The phenomenon of "drifting to the north" and "dwelling in humble abode" is still relatively common, and there is no root, exclusion and loss mentality. Third, the impact of western culture and the rapid spread of new media will lead to "hip-hop" culture and "deconstruction" mentality. Since the reform and opening up, western values and lifestyles have gradually penetrated into our society, directly impacting our mainstream values. At present, the emerging media, mainly mobile phones and the Internet, contribute to the process of "hip-hop" and "deconstruction" and have a negative impact on shaping a good social mentality. Psychological counseling and social mentality adjustment can generally be divided into two parts: social adjustment and self-adjustment. Social adaptation mainly includes the following aspects. First, improve the system generation mechanism and adjust the social mentality through scientific and reasonable policy design and implementation. With a good policy, you will have a good mood. Systems and policies are the fundamental guarantee of people's vital interests, with stability and reliability, and are important measures to promote the transformation of social mentality. In terms of system and policy formulation, we should strengthen investigation and study, listen to the opinions and wishes of the masses extensively, deeply understand their interests and needs, and seriously grasp the social mentality, so that our decision-making can conform to the public opinion, reassure the people, conform to the people's feelings, and truly embody the ruling concept of building the party for the public and governing for the people. Second, we should change our work style and go deep into the masses for psychological counseling. We must adhere to the party's mass line, from the masses to the masses. We must resolutely do what we can, and patiently and meticulously explain what we can't do at the moment. Only by going among the masses can we understand their sufferings and grasp the true state of social mentality. It is absolutely impossible to do a good job of social psychological counseling if you are divorced from the masses and above them. Persistently maintaining a good work style is a good prescription for psychological counseling and social mentality adjustment. Third, strengthen anti-corruption construction and win the hearts of the people with the party's heart. The key to China's success lies in the Party. All kinds of passive corruption are incompatible with the party's purpose. Corruption cases that occurred in a few leading cadres and civil servants had a very bad influence on the formation of social mentality, seriously damaged the party's image and formed a general rebellious mentality. History has proved that whether anti-corruption and honesty can be maintained is related to the people's heart and ruling position of the ruling party. We must unswervingly push forward the construction of anti-corruption and honesty, always pay attention to details and pay more attention to actual results, strive to promote the transparency and openness of various social affairs, implement the people's right to know and participate, let the people find the feeling of being masters of the country, and shape the sunshine mentality with "sunshine operation". Fourth, strengthen ideological and political work and build a social mentality adjustment network. The experience of our party's ideological and political work shows that ideological and political work is an important magic weapon for psychological counseling and social mentality adjustment. Fully summarizing, utilizing and innovating the traditional advantages of our party's ideological and political work for many years and strengthening psychological intervention and guidance will play an important role in psychological guidance and social mentality adjustment. At the same time, we should innovate the ways and means of ideological and political work to "vent" and "decompress" the bad social mentality. From the perspective of reality and long-term needs, it is imperative to establish and improve psychological counseling and counseling institutions at all levels. It is necessary to strengthen the training of psychological counseling techniques, master the methods and skills of psychological adjustment, cultivate a team of social psychological workers, and form a wide network of social psychological work. While attaching importance to the adjustment of social mentality, we should also attach great importance to the adjustment of individual self-mentality. First of all, strengthen psychological cognitive adjustment and establish a positive attitude. The core principle of individual psychological cognitive adjustment is to face reality, face oneself squarely, reasonably expect, and be content with happiness, so as to change the way of thinking and mentality and avoid entering the psychological "strange circle" and "ivory tower". We should learn to adjust and motivate ourselves, read the book of determination, make friends with sunshine, be a virtuous person, establish an enterprising outlook on life and values, constantly revise the existing outlook on success and wealth, and enhance our inner spiritual motivation by creating a "small environment" for ourselves. Secondly, strengthen psychological and emotional adjustment and establish a rational and peaceful healthy mentality. Just like psychological cognition, psychological emotions are also right and wrong, and the lack, dislocation and distortion of emotions can easily lead to emotional excitement and excessive emotions. The fundamental goal of emotional guidance and regulation is rationality, peace, restraint and self-discipline, and the most realistic method is "empathy". Empathy is a kind of consciousness and an ability. Think from each other's perspective, love yourself, love others, love society, and "don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you". In this way, through constant practice, you will gradually establish a rational and peaceful healthy mentality. Thirdly, strengthen the adjustment of psychological character and establish an open and inclusive optimistic attitude. To establish an open and inclusive social mentality, the most fundamental principle is to firmly adhere to the creed of "harmony without differences" and "seeking common ground while reserving differences". The most fundamental way is to read more, listen more, communicate more with others, discuss more when things go wrong, and learn from each other's strengths. This will enlarge our minds and make us calm. In adversity, we don't feel inferior, we don't complain about others, and in prosperity, we are not arrogant or supercilious. We respect others and understand differences, then an open and inclusive attitude will eventually be established. (Sun Shuping)