College students are in the transition period from adolescence to adolescence, at the same time, their physical development is close to maturity, and their psychology is also undergoing drastic changes, especially in their emotions. Compared with middle school students, their emotional content tends to be profound and rich, their emotional expression tends to be hidden, and their emotional changes tend to be stable. The main manifestations are as follows:-With their own growth and development, the emotional state of college students is gradually mature and close to adults; Second, there are still many immature aspects of college students' emotions; Thirdly, in college, there are some special emotional reactions (such as contradiction, polarization and imagination). Specifically, the emotional characteristics of college students mainly include the following points:

(1) outgoing, lively and full of excitement.

As far as the overall level of college students is concerned, they are optimistic, lively, open, enthusiastic, energetic, positive, full of vigor and passion.

(2) Emotional delay tends to be a state of mind.

Emotion is an important feature of college students' emotions. The emotional characteristics of teenagers in middle school are often subject to external situations. As the situation changes, emotional reactions come and go quickly. However, the emotional reaction of college students often does not disappear with the change of external stimulus environment, but is delayed and tends to a state of mind.

(3) The emotional experience is deeper and richer.

The emotional experience of college students is more colorful, and with the continuous development of self-awareness and the expansion of various needs and interests, it is more rich, sensitive, delicate and profound, and has more emotional experience with social content.

(4) Volatility and polarity

The emotional age of college students is in the transitional stage between minors and adults, which reflects the coexistence of two emotions. On the one hand, compared with middle schools, college students tend to be stable and mature; On the other hand, compared with adults, the mood of college students has obvious ups and downs, and it is easy to go from one extreme to the other. Sometimes, their emotions are characterized by ups and downs, great joy and great anger.

(5) Impulsiveness and explosiveness

The emotional characteristics of college students are particularly strong and exciting in emotional experience. They are very sensitive to everything, and sometimes once their emotions break out, they are difficult to control, and even show some blind fanaticism and impulsiveness. When dealing with contradictions between classmates, teachers and students, and setbacks in academic life, they often go to extremes and bring harm to themselves and others.

(6) Contradiction and complexity

The university stage is a period when college students are faced with many important choices, often showing contradictory and complicated emotional States. For example, the need for independence and the need to rely on others coexist; Dissatisfied with oneself, unwilling to take responsibility; I hope to get others' understanding, but I don't want to accept others' concern and so on.

(7) Implication and disguise

The emotional expression of college students, although sometimes beaming, is not as frank as that of teenagers. Many college students often hide and disguise their emotions, which is manifested in the inconsistency between external performance and internal experience. This also invisibly brings obstacles to the mutual communication between college students, making some students feel lonely and depressed.

(8) Imagination

Sometimes, college students' emotional experience will be intoxicated with a pleasant emotional state, or indulge in a negative emotional state, and even fall into an imaginary joy or anxiety. For example, some college students feel ashamed of losing a sports meeting, and then generalize to imagine that everyone around them is belittling themselves, resulting in a bad mentality that they are not as good as everyone else.

2. Emotional characteristics of different groups of college students.

The mood of college students is a gradual process from immaturity to maturity, from simplicity to complexity, and from simplicity to richness. According to the investigation on the psychological status of Beijing university students in the late 1990s, Beijing university students are open, lively and excited, and most of them are relatively mature and stable. However, in different groups of college students, they also show different emotional characteristics:

Differences between boys and girls

The emotional state of girls is characterized by enthusiasm, openness, excitement and fantasy, and daring to think and do. But it is easy to produce unstable emotions such as depression, anxiety and sentimentality. Boys tend to be relatively stable, aggressive, more independent and more determined than girls. However, when you are emotional, it is easy to get out of control and make excessive behavior.

(2) Grade differences

Freshmen who have just entered the school often have illusions about everything, are full of doubts and interests in various knowledge fields, and are often too conceited in their evaluation, lacking a comprehensive and systematic analysis of self-knowledge and roles, and are in an uncertain stage. The second year is a stage of great emotional fluctuation, which is highlighted by the fact that after the novelty of the first year of college disappears, the contradictions and conflicts in college life, study and interpersonal communication of college students and their emotional troubles are exposed completely. From the third grade, students' emotional self-control ability is enhanced. They have basically adapted to the living environment of the university, have certain emotional self-control ability, and their emotional state is relatively stable. However, after the fourth grade, their life will face an important turning point, because they are about to enter the society. At this time, their emotional state once again presents contradiction and complexity.