The Relationships Between Personality Characteristics,Emotion Regulation Strategies And Mental Health Among College Students And Intervention

This research aimed to explore the relationship between personality traits,emotional regulation and mental health,and establish a feasible plan for group counseling can not only provide theoretical support for college mental health education,but also has important practical significance.This research selected college students as subjects to conduct two studies.Study 1 uses Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Revised,Short Scale for Chinese,Emotion Regulation Questionnaire,and General Mental Health Questionnaire(GHQ-20)as a research tool to survey 974 college students to discuss and ascertain the relationships between personality traits like neuroticism and extroversion,emotion regulation strategies like cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression,mental health.Through the test of mediating effects,this paper probes into the internal mechanism of personality and emotion regulation strategies influencing the psychological health of college students,provides theoretical support for school mental health education,and provides a theoretical basis for the intervention research of research two.Study 2 uses group psychological guidance as a method,and on the basis of research,it examined whether group psychological guidance has a significant effect on the psychological health of university students.The findings are as follows:(1)College students are more inclined to cognize and re-evaluate the choice of emotional regulation strategies.Boys' expression inhibition strategies scored significantly higher than girls.There are significant gender differences in psychoticism and neuroticism.Males score higher on psychoticism and girls score higher on neuroticism.The anxiety of mental health has significant gender differences,and the degree of anxiety of boys is significantly lower than that of girls.(2)There is a correlation between personality traits,emotion regulation strategies and mental health in general and most dimensions.(3)Cognitive reassessment plays a role in the mediation between neuroticism and mental health;Cognitive reassessment plays an intermediate role in the relationship between introversion and extroversion and mental health;Expression inhibition plays a role in mediation between neuroticism and mental health.There is a partial mediation between expression and inhibition of internal and external factors and mental health.(4)The group psychological guidance based on rational emotion therapy can influence the choice of emotional regulation strategies of college students to a certain extent,and improve the mental health of college students.