The Research Of The Mental Adaptive Training Among College Freshmen

College life is an important stage to a person.Young students have to face mental and physical transformation and role switching. It inquires undergraduates possess relevant mental adaptional abilities. However, the overall condition of undergraduates’mental adaptional abilities isn’t promising because of many factors.Lacking abilities to adapt the complex and changing circumstances,lots of undergraduates show inadaptation for campus life and social environment,which will seriously restrict their growth and development.To solve this problem,it is necessary for us to do the research on current situation and we should probe into the ways to improve their abilities as well.Improve the mental and social adaptional abilities as soon as they enter the campus, then the level of their mental heath will be raised graduallythus they can get ready for college and social life.Based on educational management science and psychology, this research investigated and analysed the the causes of the current situation about freshmen’s mental adaptional abilities, discussed effective measures to improve it and carried out a series of practical mental adaptive trainings combined with the real situation of our school and quested the impacts these trainings had brought to improve the abilities and the health level.As the reality that the research is still locating at a theoretical level in China and there’s not enough laboratory evidences either,we should develop applied research actively. Multiple ways including freshmen’s entrance education, group psychological guidance, tutorial system,mental adaptation training and assistant advisor system were adopted to help freshmen to acquaint themselves with campus life and social environment, to reconstruct their life-believes and life-goals,cultivate the abilities of resisting failure and adapting the environment,to transform their roles successfully and train the ability of living independently,to strengthen collective sense of honor,develop group spirit and team work coordination ability and finally to improve the mental and social adaptation.Ultimately, the education model cognizing-practising-adapting can be carried out successfully.The main object of study were freshmen in Lu Zhou Medical College,13natural classes in total.Fist of all,two surveys were carried out to master freshmen’s total level of mental health and the situation of mental adaptional abilities by applying Chinese College Students’ Mental Health Scale and Chinese College Students’Adapting Scale. Then two of the13classes (120persons in each class)that did not have significant difference in the level of mental health and the situation of mental adaptional abilities were chose to be the object of study, the experimental class and the control class. The mental adaptive training was applied to the experimental class druring half a year,whlie the contrasted class wasn’t applied. After the experiment the same scale was applied to test and evaluate,then use SPSS10.0to process and analyse the test data.The results showed that:1.Mental adaptive training can raise freshmen’s mental health level. Except psychosexual disorders,the mental health level of the experimental class appears significant differences in eleven items before and after being trained.However, only four items of the control class appear significant differences at the beginning and the end of the experiment.These four items are:social withdrawal,social contact attack, compulsive and dependent character. The other eight items appear no difference. Comparing the experimental class and the control class after the experiment,except social contact attack and psychosexual diorders,the other ten items all appear no difference and the mean score of the control class is higher than that of the. experimental class,which suggests the mental adaptive training can enhance the freshmen’s level of mental health effectively.2. The mental adaptive training can improve the mental adaptive abilities of freshmen. Six items but occupation abilities appear significant differences before and after the experiment of the experimental class and the mean score is higher after the experiment.As for the control class except self-adapt and self-worth appear significant differences,the rest items has no significant differences.Before experiment,there are not any difference in7items between the experimental class and the control class,But after experiment,six items appear notable difference except occupation adaptability.Moreover, the mean scores of the control class are higher than those of the experimental class,which suggests the mental adaptive training can effectively improve the freshmen’s mental adaptability.3.The mental adaptive training can improve freshmen’s major performances.At the end of the first term in Grade One,the two classes took the same courses and tests.Except the mean score of biology has no significant differences between the two classes,the other five courses’mean scores of the experimental class are higher than those of the control class,but the mean score of physical education is on the contrary.The failure rate (the number of failure divided by the total number of the class) of the experimental class is evidently lower than that of the control class.The above facts illustrate that mental adaptive training can improve freshmen’s learning adaptability.4.This research has demonstrated that the mental adaptive training can advance freshmen’s mental health level and adaptive abilities and it can offer theoretical and practical evidence for entrance and mental health education for freshmen.lt can be developed as a formal curriculum for colleges to carry forward the quality-oriented education.The primary causes for freshmen’s mental maladjustment are the conflicts which between the exam-oriented education and the quality-oriented education,and the conflicts between the popular education and the elite education. In order to resolve these conflicts,we should adopt three measures.Firstly, reform the present education system and advance the quality-oriented education;secondly, purify the social environment and reinforce the family education.Thirdly, attach importance to the entrance education and put the mental training into effect. However, under the current circumstances, the mental adaptive training is the primary measure to resolve freshmen’s mental maladjustment. All colleges and universities should value the work about freshmen’s mental training and increase financial and policy supports, build a professional training ground and a professional teaching staffs.In fact,the training time should be lengthen to one year even the whole college life.During training,we should help freshmen to rebuild life believes and goals,achieve role trasition and self-identity, establish learning target and improve learning method, cultivate the ability of living independently and arrange personal time effectively and foster interpersonal skill and social adapting capability,to pass on mental health knowledge,and to carry out career planning and career faith education. At the same time,people should attach importance to family education and reform the family education actively.Parents should be responsible for family education indeedly and create suitable growing environment for youngsters.