A Group Guidance To Enhance The Preliminary Study Of College Students' Emotion Regulation Ability

Emotion is one of the foundation stone of psychology, it is involved in our psychological process all through our life. Emotional adjustment is the process that people manage and change emotional state of themselves' and the others'. Emotional adjustment ability is the guarantee of emotional health. Continuous improvement of emotional state reflects the improvement of the emotional adjustment. The aim of this study is to testify whether the group guiding is effective and practical when it is applied to improve the undergraduates' emotional health and to enhance their emotional adjustment ability with a series of psychological training courses. Forty-three undergraduates are included in the training group, who are pre-tested, after-tested and in follow-up survey with Diflerenlial Loneliness Scale, Interaction Anxiousness Scale, Texas Social Behavior Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory. Forty-two undergraduates are included in the control group, who are pre-tested and in follow-up survey with the same scales. The results suggested that (1) group guiding is an effective and practical method to improve the undergraduates' emotional state and emotion adjustment ability; (2) group guiding with a series of psychological training courses has significant effects in improving emotional state and emotion adjustment ability for a short term and a long term; (3) Interaction Anxiousness Scale, Texas Social Behavior Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory' are good scales in evaluating emotionalstate.;(4) the series of psychological training courses still need further developing and improving...