The Relationship Between Gratitude And Mental Health Of Junior School Students And Its Educational Strategy

Recently, the term"psychological sub-health" has swept the world. It means a sort of immediate state between mental health and mental illness and involves people from all ages. Meanwhile, a variety of adverse events derived from the deficiency of the sense of gratitude in the society urge all relevant scholars think painfully and create a new educational model.The author discovers that the junior school students are both in significant age when before making their own values stable and easily directed according to the studying of domestic and international papers. Gratitude education, if possible, improving students’ gratitude consciousness as well as mental health could promote thanksgiving culture and curb negative phenomenon in the society. However, this hypothesis is based on a precondition that casuality exists between these two sides. So this thesis is divided into two parts, the one is for surveying their gratitude and mental health by longitudinal track test with AGS and SCL-90for150students from a certain junior school in Henan within seven months. This part indicates that the coefficient of association between gratitude and mental health is positive. Gratitude generates an obvious prediction for mental health. Another one is intervention, eight times, within two months. These grades eight students from a certain junior school in Henan were class-based divided into the experimental group and the control group. Each of group contains30students. This part indicates that there is an obvious difference about the mental health between before and after the intervention in the experimental group with another story in the control group; homogeneity existing in these two groups before intervention is replaced by discrepancy.Main conclusions:(1)Both the awareness of gratitude and mental health of grade eight students is significantly weaker than of grade seven students.(2)Girls in the junior school have lower level of mental health than boys’.(3)Gratitude can positively predict mental health.(4)Gratitude can negatively predict some factors which are related with terror, paranoia, sleep, diet, etc.(5)Both the perceptions to profits from the society and experiences can positively predict mental health. (6)Both the perceptions to profits from the society and experiences can negatively predict some factors which are related with obsessive-compulsive symptom, anxiety, hostility, paranoia, dietary and sleep, etc.(7)It is advisable to make use of group guidance for improving the awareness of gratitude and mental health.(8)The intervention achieves with a great improvement of the awareness of gratitude and mental health in the junior school students.