A Study On The Relationship Between College Students’ Pride And Mental Health And Its Intervention

In recent years,pride has attracted a lot of attention from researchers.Most researchers believe that there are two types of pride.One is achievement-oriented,which contributes to social status,promotes prosocial behaviors,and builds good interpersonal relationships,which is called authentic pride.The other,which is associated with narcissism,hostility and aggressive behavior,can lead to relationship conflict and is known as hubristic pride.Studies have shown that pride is closely related to depression and anxiety in mental health.Based on this,this study,from the perspectives of theory and practice,explores the relationship between college students’ pride and mental health on the one hand,and introduces the method of group counseling on the other hand to intervene the authentic pride of college students and explore the feasible scheme of pride cultivation.A study of 499 undergraduates in Wuhan,Tianjin and other cities using the Authentic and Hubristic Pride Proneness Scales and General Health Questionnaire-20 showed that the authentic pride of undergraduates was significantly positively correlated with self-affirmation in mental health,but not with worry,and was significantly negatively correlated with anxiety.However,hubristic pride is significantly negatively correlated with self-affirmation in mental health,not negatively correlated with anxiety,and significantly positively correlated with anxiety.In the second study,group counseling was used to intervene the pride of college students.Through recruitment,9 college students were enrolled into the sub-group of the youth League and had six "I am proud of myself" group counseling activities for 90 minutes each time,once a week.Eight college students were enrolled into the "love"group as the control group,which was also 90 minutes each time,a total of six times once a week.At the same time,9 college students in the subgroup,based on their own experience,selected the students with proud characteristics around them as the blank control group without any intervention(in the end,7 college students participated in the whole study).The results showed that the authentic pride of college students in the subgroup increased significantly,while the authentic pride of the other two groups did not change significantly,and the mental health status of the three groups did not change significantly.Therefore,this study speculated that group counseling can effectively enhance the authentic pride of college students,which can be applied in college campuses.