大学生心理健康课中性格优势培养初探

Cultivating the Character Strengths in Mental Health Class for College Students

以196位选修心理健康通识核心课的学生为对象开展性格优势培养研究,为期16周,每周一次大班课(由教师主讲)和一次小班小组讨论课(由助教主持),主要讨论性格优势使用和解决其他心理问题。结果表明,就性格优势和主观幸福感来说,优势使用进步组显著提高,不变组维持原状,退步组显著下降;就抑郁和焦虑水平看,进步组无变化,不变组焦虑变强,退步组抑郁、焦虑都变强。这说明心理健康课中纳入优势使用能促进性格优势和心理健康。

A total of 196 students in a core general selected course of mental health were used as subject to explore the cultivation of the character strengths. The course lasted 16 weeks with 1 class taught by teachers with all students and 1 small group discussion class administered by assistant teachers each week. Students mainly discussed how to use character strengths and solve other psychological problems. The results showed that, in term of character strengths and subjective well-being, the progressive group made significant improvements. The unchanged group kept the original levels and the retrogressive group became worse. In terms of depression and anxiety, the progressive group kept the original levels. The unchanged group became worse in anxiety and the retrogressive group got worse in both depression and anxiety. The results indi-cate that using character strengths in mental health class would improve students’ character strengths and mental health.