THE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH OF COLLEGE STUDENTS’ BACKGROUND OF ARTS EDUCATION AND RELATIONSHIP WITH MENTAL HEALTH

Abstract

"Research background: Today, with the normalization of COVID-19 prevention and control, college students are easy to show a psychological state of sub-healthy because of excessive mental stress, and even get a series of psychological problems, such as test anxiety, social anxiety, employment anxiety, and so on. In this context, according to the investigation and research, it is found that the mental health of students with arts education background is better than those who have not studied arts, and arts education plays an increasingly important role in the development of physical and mental health of college students. Research purpose: The research purpose is to explore the relationship between college students' years of arts education and their life meaning experience, to find the relationship between college students' arts education background and their mental health. Research methods: The data were collected by questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS and Mplus software. Through the mediation model and regression analysis of the questionnaire data, this paper demonstrates the relationship between college students' arts education background and their mental health. Subjects: The data of 277 students were selected for latent variable analysis, and the years of learning arts and the frequency of participating in arts were taken as independent variables to study their effects on mental health-related factors such as life meaning experience and life meaning pursuit. The results of data analysis: Through the analysis of the mediation model, it is found that the longer the years of learning arts, the higher the value of life meaning experience and the pursuit of life meaning. The number of years of learning arts also plays a mediating role in the experience and pursuit of life meaning through life satisfaction. When positive emotion is used as a mediating variable, the higher the frequency of participation in arts, the higher the experience of life meaning and the pursuit of life meaning."