The Study Of Moral Character Influencing Individual Mental Health

Since 1980s, the education and practice on mental health have recovered in our country. After the 1990s, especially the education circles. China proposed the target of developing quality-orientty,ed education, in which the mental health education has been researched as a part of quality-oriented education and concerned by society.Besides,It's a major issue of the current mental health theory and practice to understand and to grasp the factors of influencing the mental health and the approach of enhancing the mental health correctly.It is a unique perspective to research the study of moral character influencing individual mental health. About the problem of increasing individual mental health, previous studies mainly focused on the social aspects such as the individual relationships, early experiences, and counseling, while few people paid attention to the moral aspects in the development of individual psychology.In fact, the moral quality and is closely and inseparably related to individual mental health. In social life, moral character can adjust the relationship between peoples (people)and social relations. Besides, the individual moral character as well as its mental health status and level directly determines the ability of recognizing and adjusting all kinds of social relationship.The Chinese traditional Confucian culture is broad and profound, and it contains abundant psychological health thoughts. Confucian had already noticed that there is a close relation between morality and individual mental state. It is said that Confucius lived to 73 years old, Mencius lived to 84 years old,which is relatively long at that time..When talking about the secret of longevity, confucian said:"Man with highest virtue will live long"; " Wise men love moving, while man possessing high character like silence, besides the people love moving feel very happy,and man owning noble nature will live long".The Confucian theories include benevolence,psychological development theory, setbacks view, the concept of harmony,doctrine of the mean and so on. And they provide a unique perspective and effective ways to enhance individual mental health, predict and overcome psychological disorders, and solve the issues appearing in our life. In a word, the Confucian theories are valuable spiritual wealth of the modern psychological health theories and practice.Basing on Confucian perspective about mental health, this paper discusses the inherent mechanism of influencing individual mental health from the aspects of recognition, emotion, personality and so on. In addition, this paper fully scoops and taps the relationship between traditional Chinese Confucian morality and mental health, combining with Western psychology theories. About the cognitive health, this paper analyzes the process about all the aspects of moral characters which influence self awareness such as the choice and the accuracy of the individual observation; the development of creative thinking and the formation of note quality. As for the emotional health, this article explores the process of the moral character influencing the production of individual emotion, the impact of regulation and the control mechanisms. About the personal health, this article discusses the status of moral character in the structure of the individual personality and the influence of moral character affecting the formation and development of individual personality.