The Influence Of Left-behind Experience On College Students’Depression And Intervention Research

With the social transformation and urbanization accelerating quickly, people pay more and more attention, to the left-behind children. At the same time, these children grow up to become college students and came into sight, they were originally called college students with left-behind experience. Domestic scholars found that in the process of counseling this group shows common problems such as low self evaluation, emotional instability and so on. It should draw the attention and thinking of the general education workers. Many results show that compared with non left-behind students, college students with left-behind experience have a higher level of depression, and their depression rate is significantly higher than the national norm for college students. Depression status of college students with left-behind experience is not optimistic. So, what is the influence of left-behind experience on college students’depression? What are the factors affecting college students’ depression in the left-behind experience? How to carry on effective intervention for these factors of depression? This study will make an in-depth discussion.The study includes two sub-studies:one is according to the poster recruiting, with the principle of voluntary participation, using a semi-structured interview outline to conduct in-depth interviews with20left-behind students who have depressed mood. The results show that left-behind experiences have a significant impact on college students’ depression. The factors include that parents go out all the year round means lack of family support for children, lacking in communication and company has a close relationship to the college students’depression. The lack of social support such as teachers and peers’will increase the negative emotional experience. The deviation of self cognition has a direct effect on depression.In the second research we select10college students with left-behind experience as the research object and they become a team of group guidance. We design targeted intervention plan according to the influence factors from the first research. The intervention program contains8themes which designed from providing support between members, fixing the cognitive deviation, learning relaxation techniques and other related subjects activities. The results show that the specific scheme can effectively improve depressive symptoms and decrease the levels of depression.The main conclusions as follows:(1) College students with left-behind experience have loneliness, sadness, helplessness and other negative emotions to increase depression experience, because the communication frequency with parents is reduced and they are lack of attention. Despite the support of the teachers and classmates will help ease the negative emotions, a lot of students exist in lack of social support, and deviation of self cognition, their depression is difficult to alleviate in natural conditions.(2) The group intervention can effectively reduce the college students’ level of depression, especially for college students with left-behind experience whose mothers went for a short time.