How Mental Health Courses Affect Emotional Adaptation of College Students

Jingyuan Liu

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How Mental Health Courses Affect Emotional Adaptation of College Students

Jingyuan Liu

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Background: With the increasing number of psychological problems of contemporary college students, the level of mental health and the quality of psychological literacy need to be improved. Mental health courses are generally considered to be one of the effective ways to improve the mental health level of college students and promote their harmonious development of body and mind because of their advantages of strong systematicness and wide coverage. Objective: The study explored the influence of mental health courses form on emotional adaptation of college students and the chain mediating effect of social adaptation, self-efficacy and self-esteem. Methods: The scales about emotional adjustment, social adaptation, self-efficacy and self-esteem were used to measure in the group counseling course (21 students) and the traditional teacher teaching course (24 students). Results: (1) Group counseling course was more effective than teacher teaching course in improving college students’ emotional adaptation and social adaptation. (2) Social adaptation, self-efficacy and self-esteem played a chain mediating role in the influence of mental health course form on emotional adaptation. Conclusion: The results significantly revealed the effect of different forms of mental health courses and the effect mechanism of mental health course form on college students’ emotional adaptation, which can provide an important reference for improving the level of emotional adaptation by increasing the form of group counseling and improving the social adaptation, self-efficacy, self-esteem.

Published in	Education Journal (Volume 11, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.edu.20221104.15
Page(s)	169-173
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Mental Health Course, Emotional Adaptation, Social Adaptation, Self-efficacy, Self-esteem

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Jingyuan Liu

Center for Counselling and Psychological Development, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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