The Application of Positive Psychology in Effective Teaching
Positive psychology seek not how things go wrong, but how things go right. Therefore, it gives a new perspective for the teaching of mental health, especially in higher education. The study was to discuss the effect of positive psychology in the mental he
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The Application of Positive Psychology in Effective Teaching Yu Lin, Yu Jing, He Zhifang and Li Wuiguo
Abstract Positive psychology seek not how things go wrong, but how things go right. Therefore, it gives a new perspective for the teaching of mental health, especially in higher education. The study was to discuss the effect of positive psychology in the mental health education by elective course teaching in Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. 33 undergraduates were given a 12week elective course teaching, then they were impersonally evaluated by SCL-90 and CMI before and after the teaching. The total points of mental health the after was evidently lower than the before (p \ 0.001), which shows there is a obvious raise in the total level of mental health; the points of somatization, compulsion, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, and paranoid was lower than before (p \ 0.05), which proves there is a raise in six facets. The positive psychology course is good for the raising of the level of mental health, and students can evaluate themselves and face the life positively. Keywords Positive psychology teaching
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Positive psychology studies the virtues and value of human beings, focuses on psychology conditions of every man and attaches importance to the positive aspects of humanity. It overcomes the one-sidedness of traditional psychology which emphasizes psychological disease, and truly retakes the responsibility of psychology. Positive psychology was founded only 10 years ago, yet we have seen the brilliant prospects of it.
Y. Lin (&) Y. Jing H. Zhifang L. Wuiguo Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine , Jiangxi University, XingWuan Road 28, Nanchang, China e-mail: [email protected] S. Li et al. (eds.), Frontier and Future Development of Information Technology 1673 in Medicine and Education, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 269, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7618-0_192, Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
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College students were offered ‘‘Positive Psychology’’ as an elective course, and the experiment investigates its effect on the mental health of them. The data which were collected and analyzed are as follows.
192.1 Research Method 192.1.1 Original Data The subjects of the study are 40 college students who volunteered and have been tested. There are 19 males and 21 females, aged from 19 to 23, and the average age of them is 20.21 ± 0.99. And there are 24 freshmen, 14 sophomores and 3 juniors.
192.1.2 Research Tool The experiment uses Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90) and Cornell Medical Index (CMI). There are 90 items and 10 factors in SCL-90. It uses five levels of score (0–4), which represent negative, light, moderate, serious and extreme respectively. Addition of the scores of the 90 items is the total score, which could reflect the general mental health level of the subject. The score of the factors = the total score of the items which are involved with the factor/the number of the
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