Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)

Analysis of the Psychological State of College Students in the Post-pandemic Period and Adjustment Strategies

Authors
Jiling Zhangalexzhan@usc.edu
Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, University of Sothern California, Los Angeles, California, 90089, United States
Corresponding Author
Jiling Zhangalexzhan@usc.edu
Available Online 11 July 2022.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220704.145How to use a DOI?
Keywords
COVID 19; mental health for college students; post pandemic; negative emotions
Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted higher education in many ways: organization and management, teaching methods, research collaboration, etc. College students have been greatly affected by the pandemic environment as it relates to higher education subjects. The mental health standards of college students have been a critical concern in academia. In the post-pandemic era, college students have some new psychological characteristics: depression and anxiety, awakening and confusion, fragmented learning, networked socialization, and some of them have negative emotions and psychological problems such as panic, anger, and rebellion. Along with the resumption of university lectures, higher education has entered the post-pandemic period, but the impact of COVID-19 on college students is irreversible. From the perspective of students, the challenges faced by higher education in the post-pandemic period are analyzed and summarized from the perspective of students, and finally, it is concluded that: the socio-economic impact brought by the pandemic has caused psychological fluctuations and induced negative emotions among college students, which has challenged the ideological and political education work of colleges and universities; the outbreak of the epidemic has caused some college students who originally planned to study abroad to cancel their plans or change their study destination countries, which has affected the internationalization of higher education. From the theoretical perspective of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), the author analyzes the causes of the irrational psychology of college students and proposes three psychological adjustment strategies based on theoretical guidance: problem-solving techniques, cognitive restructuring techniques, and coping techniques, to solve the mental health problems of college students caused by the epidemic. For this, the paper proposed new criteria for college students’ mental health in the post-pandemic era — positive and controllable emotions, appropriate moral values, actively coping with academics, and healthy social interaction — and proposed corresponding educational strategies from the perspective of educational administrators.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Mental Health, Education and Human Development (MHEHD 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
11 July 2022
ISBN
978-94-6239-589-3
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.220704.145How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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