Development Of College Students Research Articles

The Integration of Career Planning and College Students' Mental Health Education

Career planning and mental health education for college students have always been important topics in university education. In order to better assist college students in career planning and promote mental health development, the integration of career planning and college students' mental health education has become an important innovative initiative in university education. In this paper, we will discuss how to realize the integration of career planning and college students' mental health education and propose specific measures to realize the integration in terms of establishing a curriculum system, integrating education and practice programs, strengthening the construction of teachers and enhancing assessment and management, and propose improvement measures by evaluating the effect of the integration. The purpose of this paper is to provide reference and guidance for the integration of career planning and mental health education for college students and to promote the overall development of college students.

대학생의 셀프리더십이 진로성숙도에 미치는 영향: 긍정심리자본의 매개효과를 중심으로

This empirical research study aims to verify the mediating effect of positive psychological capital in the relationship between college students’ self-leadership factors and their career maturity. Based on this, the purpose is to seek career counseling intervention strategies to promote career development and career maturity of college students in universities and local communities. To achieve this purpose, a survey was conducted from August to October 2022 targeting students at 4-year universities located in Daegu Metropolitan City/Gyeongsangbuk-do and Busan Metropolitan City/Gyeongsangnam-do regions. The data collected as a result were analyzed using SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 programs. The research results are as follows. First, it was confirmed that the higher the level of self-leadership, the higher the degree of career maturity. Second, it was confirmed that the higher the level of self-leadership, the higher the positive psychological capital. Third, it was confirmed that the higher the level of positive psychological capital, the higher the career maturity. And in the relationship between self-leadership and career maturity, positive psychological capital has been verified to have a partial mediating effect. These empirical research results have theoretical and practical implications for college career (vocational) education and career (vocational) counseling for college students at the inflection point of career choice and career decision-making as prospective members of society in the life cycle.

Research on the Development of College Students' Entrepreneurship Leadership

Under the background of "double innovation", college students are the mainstay of future economic development, and the research on college students' entrepreneurial leadership is of great value. This paper takes college students as the research object, and uses the partial least squares method to analyze the influencing factors of college students' entrepreneurial leadership. The empirical results show that the five levels of individual, school, government, society, and family have a direct impact on the entrepreneurial leadership of college students, and the impact paths are 0.562, 0.433, 0.375, 0.321, and 0.252, respectively, and the degree of impact shows a downward trend. In addition, colleges and governments have an indirect impact on college students' entrepreneurial leadership through individuals. Finally, based on the perspective of human resource development and empirical results, starting from the above five dimensions, through systematic training, career planning and other ways, the entrepreneurial leadership development model of "training-experience-simulation-practice-reflection" is constructed. This study helps to understand the influence mechanism of entrepreneurial leadership, and has high practical application value.

Trajectories of college students' general self-efficacy, the related predictors, and depression: A piecewise growth mixture modeling approach

General self-efficacy plays a critical role in the development of college students, and mastering the development of students' general self-efficacy is helpful to explain students' behavior and psychological performance. Based on the data from the same cohort of college students for four consecutive years, this study used the piecewise growth mixture model to identify the developmental trajectories of general self-efficacy, built a multinomial logistic regression model to analyze the related predictors on different trajectories, and further compared the differences in depression symptoms in general self-efficacy trajectories. Three trajectories of college students' general self-efficacy were identified: stable-rising (8.7%), stable-decreasing (2.4%), and moderate and stable (88.9%). With the moderate and stable class as the reference, gender and extraversion are the predictors of students in the stable-increasing class; gender, extraversion, mother’s education level, and university tier significantly predict students who fall into the stable-decreasing class. With the stable-increasing class as the reference, gender also has a significant predictive effect on students who belong to the stable-decreasing class. However, age, ethnicity, siblings, hometown location, father’s education level, BMI, sleep, and major were not related predictors. Furthermore, mean differences in depression between latent classes of general self-efficacy trajectories were significant, and the depression scores of the stable-decreasing class were beyond the normal range in the third and fourth years. To promote college students' mental health, we suggest that colleges provide more specific psychological interventions to students based on the classification.

Comparative research on the development of college students’ physical fitness based on online physical education during the COVID-19 pandemic

BackgroundThere are few studies that focus on the impact of online physical education teaching on college students during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This research focuses on the impact of online physical education among medical school students in China by comparing physical fitness test results for three consecutive years from 2019 to 2021.MethodThis study is a longitudinal survey. The subjects of the experiments were students enrolled in a medical school who completed a physical fitness test for three consecutive years from 2019 to 2021. The student subjects were divided into two groups, namely, male and female. The test indices included body mass index (BMI), vital capacity (VC), 50-metre run, sit-and-reach, standing long jump, pull-up (male), 1000-metre run (male), sit-ups (female) and 800-metre run (female). Repeated measures ANOVA method was used in physical fitness test indices at three consecutive time points ranging from 2019 to 2021. The Greenhouse-Geisser correction was applied when Mauchly’s hypothesis test did not meet the assumption of sphericity, and the Bonferroni method was used for pairwise comparisons.ResultsA total of 3360 students (1490 males and 1870 females) completed physical fitness tests in three consecutive years from 2019 to 2021. The proportion of overweight and obesity in male students was significantly higher than that in female students (28.0% vs. 12.7%). For all subjects, in 2020, the BMI and VC indexes improved, while the 800-/1000-metre running indexes declined. In 2021, all indexes except sit-and-reach increased.ConclusionThe pairwise comparisons of physical fitness test results from 2019 to 2021 show that online physical education is effective in improving all items except long-distance running. Future research needs to involve a larger and geographically more dispersed sample to further analyse the effectiveness of online physical education.

The Effect of Character Teaching on College Student Social-Emotional Character Development: A Case in Indonesia

<p style="text-align:justify">This study aimed to investigate the effect of character teaching on college student socioemotional character development. The study was conducted at IAIN Pontianak, Universitas Tanjungpura and Universitas Muhammadiyah Pontianak. The sample was 1284 students, 388 male and 896 female. Partial least square-structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) data analysis using SmartPLS was used. The findings reveal that character teaching has a significant and positive effect on college student honesty, prosociality, respect at home, respect at school, self-control, and self-development. This study suggests that colleges/universities ensure that lecturers supervise student assignments, seriousness and discipline, check students’ attendance strictly, give course assessment samples, and grade their assignments on schedule. At the end of the conclusion, implications and suggestions are given.</p>

Generativity development among college students who mentor: a sequential multimethod quantitative study

PurposeGenerativity, defined as care for the next generation, is a hallmark of developmental theory (Erikson, 1950). Mentoring is an antecedent to generativity (Doerwald et al., 2021), with college students who mentor demonstrating higher generativity than their peers (Hastings et al., 2015). Yet no research has studied generativity development longitudinally among college students who mentor. This paper aims to discuss the aforementioned issue.Design/methodology/approachUsing MANCOVA analyses, Study 1 (N = 91) cross-sectionally examined the influence of years spent mentoring on generativity levels among college students who mentor in the USA. Study 2 (N = 44) employed growth curve analyses (GCA) in multilevel modeling (MLM) to analyze longitudinal changes in generativity over three timepoints, each one year apart, while accounting for the influence of gender.FindingsAlthough the results of the MANCOVA analyses in Study 1 were nonsignificant, Study 2 revealed a significant and positive increase in generative behavior. Specifically, generative behavior (e.g. teaching a skill or serving as a role model; McAdams and de St. Aubin, 1992) increased by 3.26 points, indicating that participants may have moved, for example, from performing a generative behavior never during the past two months to performing it more than once.Originality/valueThe current study advances the fields of college student development and mentoring by arguing for the utilization of mentoring interventions among college students to increase generativity and calling for changes to generativity measurement among collegiate populations.

Scholarship on Community College Student Affairs: A Review of 10 Years of Published Research Between 2010-2019

ABSTRACT To explore the extent at which the published student affairs research in top-tier journals is conducted primarily at four-year institutions at the exclusion of literature oncommunity colleges, we conducted a content analysis to examine the number and type of journal articles related to community colleges published in the Journal of College Student Development and the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice between 2010 and 2019. During the time frame examined, 0.99% of the journals’ articles consisted of work related to community colleges or two-year institutions. We provide recommendations for professional associations, graduate preparation programs, researchers, and educators to change this pattern.

A study on employment quality development of college students - an empirical analysis based on structural equation modeling

Abstract The rising number of college students and the increasingly severe employment situation have led to the emergence of ideological problems such as employment confusion, lack of ideals and integrity in the employment, which have become important factors affecting the quality employment of college students. The study finds that the improvement of employment value is the most important factor affecting the success of college students. Through the study, it is found that the upgradation of employment value will lead to the upgradation of employment ability. Ideology determines behavior. College students have ideal beliefs, inner constraints, behavioral scruples and dominant values that can better promote the improvement of employment ability. To carry out employment quality cultivation, it is a need to educate and improve college students’ employment value, employment ability and employment knowledge, etc. The main ways include multi-faceted and multi-level leading college students’ employment value orientation; helping college students to have the ability to cope with changes, such as continuous learning ability, ability to solve new problems and innovation ability; reconstructing the curriculum system and establishing dual-body diversified employment cultivation mode.

The Relative Influence of Subjective and Objective Socioeconomic Status on the Noncognitive Development of First-Year College Students

The study examines the associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and noncognitive development in first year college students, distinguishing between objective (or absolute) and subjective (or relative) measures of SES. The analyses draw from longitudinal data capturing college students (N = 2,488) at the start of the first year of college and again towards the end of the same academic year, across 25 public four-year colleges and universities within a single state higher education system. Results highlight the importance of subjective status, over and above objective status, and suggest strategies that may inform college and university support.

Instilling the capacity for empathy in the community college classroom through liberatory pedagogy

This article critiques the lack of literature on community college student leadership development and highlights the importance of community colleges as producers of social justice leaders and promoters of positive social change. This article examines how community college educators in the field of sociology prepare their students for success in their personal lives, careers, and communities through liberatory pedagogy, which instills empathy in their students, a core element of the social, action, leadership, and transformation (SALT) model.

The intervention effect of humanistic ideological and political management on ruminant thinking of college students and on depression and anxiety

BackgroundLearning anxiety has become a common problem among college students. Anxiety is also called psychological abnormality. The main symptoms of college students’ anxiety and depression include fear of negative evaluation in all aspects, excessive employment pressure, economic pressure, and inability to solve problems independently. Anxiety can cause symptoms such as insomnia and autism, and sometimes lead to adverse consequences or personal safety. Therefore, based on the healthy physical and mental development of college students, we can avoid learning anxiety through effective ideological and political management of humanism.Subjects and MethodsThe study combined mental health and ideological and political courses, and selected 40 students from a university as research objects through random sampling. Before the activity, the ruminant thinking was evaluated, and after the evaluation, 40 students were instructed to participate in ruminant thinking under ideological and political management. The self-designed communication anxiety scale was used to evaluate the students. The scale included two dimensions: positive rumination and negative rumination. Positive rumination includes two indicators: positive coping and enjoyment of happiness, while negative rumination includes three indicators: negative attribution, inhibition of happiness and self-denial. The scale uses a four-level scoring method, which is inconsistent (4 points), uncertain (3 points), frequent (2 points), and completely consistent (1 point). The higher the total score, the higher the degree of positive or negative rumination.ResultsThe results of intervention control experiment under different ideological and political management are shown in Table 1.Table 1.Students’ psychology before and after rumination interventionAveragequantityStandard deviationMean value of standard errorIAS pre-test48.54407.6392.299IAS post test38.62403.8161.165Before active rumination23.65404.6981.412After active rumination27.56403.2531.965Before negative rumination27.65408.2362.468After negative rumination23.92407.0512.135It can be seen from the table that after the rumination intervention, the level of students’ communication anxiety has significantly decreased, and the average level of active rumination has significantly increased. Different students can get more positive feelings and have a better way of thinking in the ideological and political curriculum under the integration of ruminant intervention.ConclusionsResearch ruminant intervention to improve the ideological and political curriculum in colleges and universities, so as to alleviate college students’ depression and anxiety thinking. The research results show that the ideological and political courses after intervention have a certain effect on students’ communication anxiety, social anxiety relief, and effectively improve their psychological anxiety.AcknowledgementThe research is supported by: General Project of Quality Project of Anhui Provincial Education Department: Research on Construction of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Courses in Universities under the Perspective of Curriculum Civics (No. 2020jyxm0357); Anhui Jianzhu University 2022 Party building and ideological and political education key topics, the new era of college students’ network ideological and political education implementation path research and practice, project number: 2022djszzd02.

Research on the Influence of Sound Therapy in Music Education on College Students’ Mental Health

At present, college students are suffering from various influences, and the pressure is increasing day by day. Many college students do not know how to deal with these pressures. Over time, they have psychological problems, which is a major obstacle to the growth and development of college students. Therefore, college education should emphasize mental health education, with the goal of cultivating students’ good psychological quality, carry out various activities, stimulate students’ psychological potential, and promote students’ comprehensive and healthy development of body and mind. For the psychological problems of college students, the traditional treatment plan is to intervene, such as cognitive therapy. Although it is helpful for students’ psychological problems, there are still some deficiencies. Music therapy mainly uses music as the carrier to cure people’s heart, which is easier to be accepted by students and has better effect. Therefore, it is of positive significance to apply music therapy to college students’ psychological education. For students, it is a simple and enjoyable treatment. For teachers, it is a new research path. In the long run, music therapy must have broad prospects for development. The mental health education in colleges and universities will also slowly turn their attention to music therapy.

Research on the Innovative Development of College Students' Ideological and Political Education from the Perspective of Cultural Self-Confidence

Contemporary college students are not only the barometer of the times, but also the backbone of the country and national talents, and the fresh force to realize the two century-old dreams. To enhance their cultural self-confidence is to endow them with wisdom, morality, spirit, and ideas, so that they have strong determination and high self-confidence. Improving college students' cultural self-confidence is the theme of ideological and political education in colleges and universities, as well as the act of strengthening the foundation of colleges and universities; We should explore and develop in ideological and political education, and use ideological and political education to promote the better implementation of the cultivation of cultural self-confidence, which in turn can promote the presentation of the educational effect of ideological and political education through the cultivation of cultural self-confidence.

Development and validation of Chinese college students' future employability scale.

COVID-19 and the pandemic-induced lockdowns juxtaposed against the surge in the number of college graduates have made the dilemma of "fierce competition and difficult employment" more real. The employment of college students has become a topic of serious concern in society. This study aimed to develop a Future Employability Scale for Chinese college students and evaluate its reliability and validity. Based on the analysis of the literature, the study developed the initial measurement scale of the college students' future employability and calibrated the initial measurement and question volume based on experts' feedback. First, the students' group was measured, and data from 389 university students were collected and analyzed. Second, the data collection and verification factor analysis of 387 university students were collected and verified, and the internal consistency reliability, split-half reliability, and validity of the scale were evaluated. Further, 68 college students were selected to evaluate their test-retest reliability after an interval of one month. The Future Employability Scale of college students had 28 items covering four dimensions: knowledge skill, personality quality, interpersonal network, and career development. The reliability test found that the total scale of the Future Employability Scale and the internal consistency reliability, split-half reliability, and retest reliability of each dimension were good, and the validity test suggested that the scale had good content validity, structural validity, and calibration correlation validity. With a clear structure, good reliability, and validity, the Future Employability Scale is a good tool to measure the future employability of college students.

Research on the Innovative Development of College Students' Ideological and Political Education from the Perspective of Cultural Self-Confidence

From the perspective of cultural self-confidence, this paper discusses the necessity of integrating excellent traditional culture into the ideological and political education of college students, and uses traditional culture to create a new path for the effectiveness of ideological and political education, reflecting the characteristics of ideological and political education in colleges and universities with Chinese characteristics. Establishing the basic path of ideological and political education for college students around cultural self-confidence is bound to cultivate more new socialist youth with ideals, morality, quality, self-confidence and firm faith. Based on the analysis of the internal relationship between cultural self-confidence and ideological and political education of college students, this paper establishes the basic path of ideological and political education of college students from the perspective of cultural self-confidence.

Research on the relationship between physical activity, sleep quality, psychological resilience, and social adaptation among Chinese college students: A cross-sectional study.

Sleep quality has become a frequent and prominent public health problem in Chinese universities, which seriously hinders the healthy development of college students and the improvement of the quality of higher education. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between physical activity and sleep quality among Chinese college students, and the mechanism of psychological resilience and social adaptation, and provide suggestions for improving the sleep quality among Chinese college students. From August to September 2022, a cross-sectional survey was conducted by using the convenience sampling method in Guangdong Province. 1,622 college students were investigated with Physical Activity Scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Scale (PSQI), Psychological Resilience Scale, and Social Adaptation Diagnostic Scale, of which 893 were male and 729 were female. Use SPSS 23.0 and PROCESS plug-ins to analyze data. (1) There was a significant negative correlation between physical activity and sleep quality (r = -0.237), and the direct path of physical activity to sleep quality was significant (β = -0.236, t = -9.888, p < 0.01); (2) physical activity can positively predict psychological resilience (β = 0.215, t = 8.823, p < 0.01) and social adaptation (β = 0.164, t = 7.773, p < 0.01); psychological resilience can negatively predict sleep quality (β = -0.337, t = -15.711, p < 0.01), positive prediction of social adaptation (β = 0.504, t = 23.961, p < 0.01); social adaptation can negatively predict sleep quality (β = -0.405, t = -18.558, p < 0.01); (3) psychological resilience and social adaptation play a significant mediating role between physical activity and sleep quality. The mediation effect consists of three paths: physical activity → psychological resilience → sleep quality (mediation effect value is -0.0723), physical activity → social adaptation → sleep quality (mediation effect value is -0.0662), and physical activity → psychological resilience → social adaptation → sleep quality (mediation effect value is -0.0438). (4) There is no gender difference in chain mediated effect. (1) Physical activity can significantly positively predict college students' psychological resilience and social adaptation, and negatively predict sleep quality, which means that physical activity may help improve college students' psychological resilience and social adaptation, and reduce sleep quality problems; (2) physical activity can not only directly affect the quality of sleep, but also indirectly affect the quality of sleep through the independent intermediary role of psychological resilience and social adaptation and the chain intermediary role of both. This further explains the reason why physical activity plays a role in college students' sleep quality, which will help to provide some inspiration for colleges and universities to reduce college students' sleep quality problems and formulate intervention plans.

The Effect of College Students’ Boredom Proneness on Phubbing: The Chain-Mediating Effects of Fear of Missing Out and Online Vigilance

Purpose. Phubbing not only affects the impression formation and communication quality of both sides of communication but also damages the quality of peer relationships among college students, reduces the happiness of interpersonal objects, and has a negative impact on the physical and mental development of college students. The boredom proneness of college students is an important influencing factor of phubbing, and we aim to investigate the mechanism of its internal influence on phubbing. Design and Methods. A short version of the boredom proneness scale, fear of missing out scale, online vigilance scale, and phubbing scale was used to survey 357 Chinese college students. Bootstrap method using SPSS Process macro developed by Hayes was used to test the chain-mediating effect of fear of missing out and online vigilance in the relationship between college students’ boredom proneness and phubbing. Results. Boredom proneness, fear of missing out, online vigilance, and phubbing were significantly and positively correlated with each other ( p &lt; 0.05 ). The test of mediated effects showed that college students’ boredom proneness not only predicted phubbing but also there were three indirect paths: the separate mediated effect of fear of missing out; the separate mediated effect of online vigilance; and the chain mediated effect of fear of missing out and online vigilance. The effect of the three mediators accounted for 31.82% of the total effect. Practice Implications. College students’ boredom proneness can directly and positively affect phubbing and also affect phubbing through the chain-mediating effects of fear of missing out and online vigilance. The prevention of phubbing among college students should not only reduce boredom proneness but also reduce the level of fear of missing out and online vigilance.

A Review of the Influence of Social Support on the Subjective Well-Being of College Students

The study of subjective well-being is becoming ever more prevalent, and as a result, more emphasis is being paid to the intimate connection that exists between social support and subjective well-being. As a result, the purpose of this work is to investigate the influence that social support has on one's sense of well-being, with college students serving as the research participants. According to the findings, the subjective well-being of college students is directly affected by both the level of subjective support and the practice of seeking assistance from others. Subjective well-being is a positive feeling in the human mind, which is a major factor reflecting the quality of human life. In this work, an effort is made to provide a complete description of the influence that social support has on the subjective well-being of college students as well as the associated process. In addition, this study discusses the current research state and future research objectives in this field and proposes new thinking methods and viewpoints for future scientific research, which endows great significance on the overall healthy development of college students.

Recent Development of College Students' Ideological and Political Education from the Perspective of Chinese Cultural Self-Confidence

Recent development of college students' ideological and political education from the perspective of Chinese cultural self-confidence is studied in this paper. Educational institutions should not unilaterally strengthen the dissemination of online ideological and political education information, but should pay attention to the two-way integration of online education and offline practice. Due to the various reasons, many civilizations in the world that were once extremely brilliant in history have been lost in the long river of history. Only the Chinese civilization has been continuous and has become the only civilization in the history of world civilization that has not been interrupted. This paper gives the new ideas regarding the ideological and political education from the perspective of Chinese cultural self-confidence.