| Positive psychology is a kind of science on how to grasp the life correctly, it considers that the core of life is not just to avoid trouble or prevent problems, but more concerns about the bright side of life, and the development of it. This area focuses on those who can promote the value of life events. Strengths is one of important hot topics in the field of positive psychology, it is a kind of positive personality traits. Study of character strengths can not only guide the project design and evaluation in the field of youth development, but also be applied to other aimed at "the development of the ideal areas", especially in school education and family education mode, it has a broad application prospect. Positive psychologists now aim to find the individual character strengths to achieve individual potential, promote the growth of the individual. Stress is known as the pressure, the causes of stress are social environment, physiological and psychological, which is a complex process. Subjected to stress events, for a long time will be harmful to our body and mind, and even lead to the happening of the disease. But the same stress events on different individuals may have different impact, it is likely to be threats or may be irrelevant, distinguishes are individuals of different cognitive style, ways of evaluation, attitude, values, personality and other factors. College students is a special group, they have not only academic pressure, but also face employment, interpersonal pressure, love life and a series of events. Long-term, pressing stress will affect individual’s physical and mental health in certain degree. To improve school, family environment can be an effective measure to reduce the adverse effects of stressful events, but fundamentally need a more effective way to improve students’cognitive, evaluation methods, attitudes, values, personality and so on. In particular, to discover and develop character strengths to response to stress.Foreign scholars on character strengths have done a lot of work on relevant theory and practical application, but for the relationship of character strengths, stress and mental health and the mechanism of action have not involved. In addition, the domestic study of character strengths is still in its infancy, to adapt to the structure and connotation of the strengths of Chinese culture, as well as the relationships among the three empirical studies need further exploration. In this study,300college students are subjects, and the methods are questionnaire, experiment, emphatically discusses the relationship of character strengths, stress and mental health and the advantage of character strengths under the experimental conditions, including the following two studies:Study1, through the questionnaire survey method to collect data, to discuss the relationship of character strengths, stress and mental health.Study2, the experiment of character strengths to adjust stress. Using laboratory stimulate stress reaction to test the physiological and psychological reaction of stress conditions.Research found that:(1) Factors of character strengths in gender, liberal arts or science and town or village are not significant, differences exist on the factor of life vigor achieves significance level on one-child, one-child scored significantly higher than not one-child.(2) Each dimension of character strengths and mental health are positively correlated. Interpersonal factor has most predictive power, alone explained14.6%of the variance. Psychological stress on mental health has a direct prediction effect, the higher the stress level, the more psychological symptoms.(3) Psychological stress has a direct predictor of mental health, the higher the level of stress, the more psychological symptoms. Learning factor has most predictive power, alone explained19.5%of the variance.(4) Character strengths is a moderator between stress and mental health, which can relieve the negative impact of stress on mental health. |
