Research On The Relationship Between College Students’ Gratitude And Psychological Capital And Educational Countermeasures

Since ancient times, Thanksgiving is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. "Gratitude", "April showers bring May flowers", "reciprocated" filled with gratitude feelings of ancient precept, is still widespread, after thousands of years widely affects the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation’s traditional moral. Thanksgiving Education of college students has always been an important aspect of Ideological and political education in Colleges and universities. Effectively carry out college students’Thanksgiving education, to improve the level of College Students’gratitude, to cultivate students’healthy personality, and promote the university students’mental health has important value. Although our country has a long history of thanksgiving culture, but in the perspective of mental health to carry out the study of Thanksgiving only a short history. Until the end of the twentieth Century, the rise of positive psychology movement, Thanksgiving as one of the twenty-four psychological characteristics of positive psychology, gradually attracted attention of the research community of mental health education. In recent years, with the development of positive psychology, the research of psychological capital, which is concerned with the positive psychological quality, has gradually become a new field in the research field of mental health education in Colleges and universities. The attention of Thanksgiving and psychological capital are positive psychology advocated in favor of the people in the development of positive psychological resources, both physical and psychological development of college students play a vital role, but both the specific relationship is still to be data research and demonstration.In order to study college students’gratitude and psychological capital, explore the path to improve the level of College Students’ gratitude, this study uses Zhenwang Xie compiled "gratitude of college students structure scale" designed by Zhang Kuo "positive psychological capital scale" as a research tool, using cluster sampling method,986 college students from Guangxi Normal University, Guangxi Medical University Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin University of Technology, Bowen college, Li jiang college, Career Academy, Guangxi seven colleges of the Guangxi ECO-engineering Vocational and Technical College as an object of investigation to collect data, and use social science statistical software SPSS19.0 analysis, research status and the relationship between gratitude and the College Students’ psychological capital.Through the study of the difference of college students gratitude and psychological capital test, correlation analysis and regression analysis, the following conclusions:1. College students gratitude overall mean value of 4.77, the score is greater than the scale of the value 4 (scoring method to adopt Likert7 point), overall level in the average state of Thanksgiving. Among them, the content is lucky, simple happiness, cherish, negative experience and four factors of average return behavior were 4.88,5.21,5.17,3.29,5.40, behavior factor score the highest returns, the negative factor score the lowest. This suggests that the college students after accepting others’graciousness, less likely to experience negative emotions, in the heart with gratitude, easy to stimulate return behavior. In terms of demographic variables, different gender college students in general grateful and return behavior factors exist significant difference (P<0.05); Different from college students there are significant differences in factor return behavior (P<0.05); Different grade students in general and grateful of each factor, there is a very significant difference (P<0.05); Poverty and poor college students there are significant differences in content lucky factor (P<0.05); However, whether the one-child, professional, academic and whether the student cadre four demographic variables, overall and each factor are college students gratitude does not exist significant difference (P>0.05)2. College students’psychological capital overall mean value of 4.71, self-efficacy, toughness, hope and optimism average of four factors were 4.59, 4.37,4.98,4.37, scored in the inventory value 4 above, in the average level. From the point of each factor score sorting, hope>optimistic>self-efficacy> toughness, it shows that the contemporary college students’ positive and optimistic, have a clear goal for the future, the future full of hope, but in the face of difficulties in real life, easy to hit, pressure resistance, adversity resistance is low. Have goals, lack of toughness, is a kind of distinctive contemporary college students psychological characteristics. In terms of demographic variables, different gender college students’ psychological capital in general and toughness, hope, optimism on the three factors exist significant difference (P<0.05); Different grade students on the psychological capital and general self-efficacy, hope, optimism on the three factors exist significant difference (P<0.05); Whether in the one-child, professional and degree on the three variables, the college students’ self-efficacy are significant differences (P<0.05). However, the students, whether the student cadre, whether poor students by school decided that three variables, college students’ psychological capital and its factors are there is no significant difference (P>0.05)3. The general college students gratitude and overall psychological capital has significant positive correlation, show that college students’ psychological capital level is higher, the gratitude, the more obvious. College students’ psychological capital has positive prediction function to the gratitude, the explanation at a rate of 39.3%,39.3% shows that the change of college students gratitude is affected by psychological capital change. College students gratitude content is lucky, simple happiness, cherish and four factors and psychological capital return behavior of each factor was significantly positive correlation; The negative factors and psychological capital overall toughness, hope, optimism and three factors have significant negative correlation. The toughness of the college students’ psychological capital, hope, optimism three factors are grateful prediction variables, can explain gratitude produced at a rate of 41.8%, i.e. the change of gratitude 41.8% is influenced by the psychological capital of toughness, hope, optimism the influence of three factors. The toughness of the college students’ psychological capital, hope and optimism, three factors have linear regression relationship with college students gratitude, they are grateful for college students explained variance of 11.4%,19.3% and 22.3% respectively.According to the above research results, this study sorted out psychological capital on the influence path diagram of the university students’ gratitude and to influence the path graph is modeled, from the perspective of positive psychological capital is proposed to improve the level of College Students’ gratitude, to promote college students’ psychological health education countermeasure. First, from the perspective of toughness promotion strategies for the level of College Students’gratitude:cognitive adjustment and improve the college students Thanksgiving incident awareness; personal practice, to strengthen college students’Thanksgiving event experience; perfect the system of social support, and create a good atmosphere of college students Thanksgiving education. Second, the optimistic view of improve level of College Students’ gratitude strategy is:to cultivate healthy emotions and increase of Thanksgiving incident, positive emotion of college students; establish reasonable attribution style, reasonable evaluation of Thanksgiving event; build a harmonious interpersonal relationships, promote Thanksgiving is produced. Third, in the hope that from the perspective of enhance level of College Students’gratitude strategy: set goals, phased out Thanksgiving education activities; strengthen willpower, strengthen the practical link of thanksgiving education; break the learned helplessness, to guide students to practice gratitude.