Influence of Mental Health Curriculum Form on College Students’ Academic Adaptation: Chain Mediating Effect of Social Adaptation and Self-Efficacy

Jingyuan Liu

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Influence of Mental Health Curriculum Form on College Students’ Academic Adaptation: Chain Mediating Effect of Social Adaptation and Self-Efficacy

Jingyuan Liu

Published in International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 8, Issue 2)

Received: 3 April 2023 Accepted: 25 April 2023 Published: 27 April 2023

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Background: Mental health education is an education that improves the psychological quality of college students and promotes the harmonious development of their physical and mental health. Objective: The present study explores the influence of mental health curriculum forms on the college students’ academic adaptation and the chain mediating effects of social adaptation and self-efficacy. Methods: The levels of academic adaptation, social adaptation and self-efficacy of students in the group counseling curriculum (N = 14) and the traditional teacher teaching curriculum (N = 24) were measured twice before and after the curriculum. Results: (1) the group counseling was better than traditional teacher teaching mental health curriculum in improving the college students’ academic adaptation; (2) the form of the college students’ mental health curriculum affected students’ academic adaptation through the indirect path: curriculum form → social adaptation → self-efficacy → academic adaptation. Conclusion: The results show the effects of different mental health curriculum forms, and reveal the internal process of how mental health curriculum improving the college students’ academic adaptation. Our findings provide an important reference for improving college students’ academic adaptation by increasing group counseling forms to promote the improvement of social adaptation and self-efficacy. That is, to promote their social adaption and self-efficacy, for which group counseling makes the big sense.

Published in	International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 8, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijecs.20230802.17
Page(s)	75-81
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Mental Health Curriculum, Group Counselling, Academic Adaptation, Social Adaptation, Self-Efficacy

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Center for Counselling and Psychological Development, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

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