College Students' Self-consciousness and Mental Health —— A Strategic Analysis of the Healthy Development of Contemporary College Students' Self-consciousness
The university stage is the last stage of self-cognition in youth, and it gradually matures and stabilizes. Correctly handling the contradiction between real self and ideal self, self-presentation and self-isolation in the development of self-awareness is of great significance for college students to acquire healthy personality and adapt to social life smoothly, and it is also an important content of college students' mental health education.
Keywords: self-awareness; True self; Ideal self
Self-awareness refers to the individual's understanding, experience and monitoring of himself and the relationship with the people around him. The awakening of self-awareness is an important psychological change with the arrival of adolescence. College students are in the last stage of adolescence, so they need to form a healthy self-structure by solving the contradiction of self-awareness development in order to complete personality maturity and personal growth.
First, correctly handle the contradiction between the real self and the ideal self.
The true self is the individual's understanding and evaluation of the current self-condition, and the ideal self is the self-condition that the individual expects to achieve. The gap between them is not only the driving force of individual progress and perfection, but also an important source of teenagers' troubles. College students are a group with a high level of ambition. It is difficult to make up the gap between the real self and the ideal self in a short time, which leads some college students to feel inferior and blame themselves, or indulge in illusory self-confidence that is difficult to do things realistically. To reasonably solve the contradiction between the real self and the ideal self, according to the different situations of students, the following three possible adjustment strategies can be adopted:
(A) efforts to improve the true self, so that it gradually approaches the ideal self.
This is the most active and difficult coordination strategy, which requires students to establish an achievable ideal self based on their objective understanding of the true self, and turn it into an operational goal, and strive to improve the true self through tenacious will.
(B) basically give up the ideal self and accommodate the realistic self.
We must objectively see that there are huge individual differences among college students, some of whom have neither extraordinary talent nor other outstanding advantages. They are a relatively weak group on campus. Influenced by the higher ideal self of the whole college students, the contradiction between their real self and their ideal self is more prominent, and it is difficult to achieve their ideal self due to their own limitations. What they can do is basically give up their ideal self, accept their real self, try to do better and learn to work with their past? Longitudinal comparison? Establish self-confidence and get rid of others? Horizontal comparison? A sense of self-harm, a normal mind and a calm and down-to-earth attitude towards life should become the healthy self-concept of these college students.
Second, show the contradiction between self and closed self.
University culture is a diversified culture, which provides many opportunities for students to show their personal style. At the same time, the contradiction between self-presentation and closed self is also prominent: successful personal presentation can make college students gain personal confidence and self-worth in the appreciation of others, but setbacks and failures in the presentation may also hurt self-esteem and self-confidence; However, self-isolation, seclusion, obscurity, sense of self-security, loneliness and self-worthlessness often plague college students who try to close themselves off. Faced with a dilemma, college students are often at a loss. The key to solving this contradiction requires college students to complete the task of concern? Other people's comments? The pattern to pay attention to? Self-evaluation? The change of mode has formed a correct concept: participating in colorful campus cultural activities is for self-discovery and development, looking for successful and pleasant experiences, not for getting applause from others. Under the control of this concept, college students can more easily exert their potential and gain personal growth in a series of failed and successful attempts.
Third, establish an independent and confident self and get rid of the troubles of growing up.
To fundamentally solve the contradiction between the real self and the ideal self and show the conflict between the self and the closed self, we need to get rid of the external dependence in the process of self-formation and establish an independent and confident self.
(A) independent of the evaluation of others, accept the reality of self.
College students often regard other people's evaluation as their own standard, and the self-uncertainty caused by paying too much attention to whether they meet other people's evaluation standards is an important source of trouble. The most important feature of a healthy and mature self is that it is independent of other people's evaluation, can complete the objective evaluation and understanding of the true self based on personal experience, and accept the self frankly. Therefore, only by realizing the transformation from external evaluation criteria to internal evaluation criteria can we gain confidence in ourselves and a pleasant experience of personal growth.
(two) independent of social pressure, complete the coordination between self and society.
The mainstream of school education is positive guidance, and society has high expectations for college students' intelligence, morality and ability. These expectations often form a certain contrast with the actual behavior of college students. Part of the anxiety of college students' self-development comes from this kind of social pressure. They often feel that their behavior does not conform to the image of college students, which leads to self-blame and guilt. To get rid of this problem, college students need to learn to compromise flexibly between social requirements and personal abilities, accept certain aspects of their personality that are not appreciated and affirmed by society, foster strengths and avoid weaknesses, and do not force themselves to yield to social pressure. We should realize that a mature and independent self should be flexible and adaptable without hindering society and others, and a person does not need to be recognized and appreciated by all sectors of society. Based on this concept independent of social pressure, college students can better publicize the positive aspects of their personality, dilute the psychological troubles caused by negative personality factors, and complete the coordination and unity between themselves and society.
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