Compared with other college students, poor college students have many excellent qualities, but at the same time, family poverty has also caused psychological imbalance of some poor college students, making them a vulnerable group that cannot be ignored psychologically.

Xia Pake Tijiang Wushuer, counselor of the Department of Precision Instruments and Machinery in Tsinghua University, and Tan Peng, student affairs office of Tsinghua University Party Committee, made a special study on the mental health of students from poor families. Their research found that the psychological problems of students from poor families are mainly manifested in three aspects.

First, a strong sense of inferiority and loss.

Economic difficulties tend to make poor students deny themselves in their study and life, because they think they are a vulnerable group and feel inferior. There are obvious differences between students from poor families and other students in school. They live frugally and study hard. However, due to the different growth environment and education environment, they often have narrow knowledge, difficulties in learning, and most of them are introverted, which makes them feel a strong sense of loss and easy to feel inferior when they are hit.

The second is sensitive interpersonal relationship and loneliness.

Students from poor families are sensitive to interpersonal relationships in mental health. Poor families make them reluctant to participate in group activities and join student organizations, and they tend to be self-enclosed and have a narrow range of contacts.

The third is the confused job-hunting mentality and fear.

With the increasingly fierce social competition, an important problem that students from poor families need to face is employment. In career choice and life planning, we should not only consider our own development, but also consider family economic problems, which brings them practical pressure. In addition, some students have a one-sided understanding of society and are dissatisfied and disappointed with society, which further aggravates their psychological burden.

Han Xiangchou, secretary of the General Party Branch of the Clinical College of Hainan Medical College, is also very concerned about the psychological problems of college students with financial difficulties. He found that long-term inferiority and depression can make poor college students very fragile and sensitive. Financial distress is something they don't want to talk about, for fear that their classmates will feel sorry for them. For the sake of self-protection, they are skeptical about everything. Other students joke unintentionally, which may sound like ridicule to them. They also think that their classmates talk about themselves behind their backs. This not only adds a lot of unnecessary troubles to oneself, but also makes oneself vulnerable to more setbacks, which leads to opposition and even hostility to others, resulting in interpersonal tension. At the same time, they usually don't want others to know their difficulties, and they would rather work hard than ask for help easily. The survey shows that 56% poor students are grateful but unwilling to accept "other students offer to help you", and 3 1% poor students are unwilling to accept "free assistance" because they think it will be looked down upon by others and have a bad influence on themselves.