Discussions on the Frustration Education of Colleges Students

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Discussions on the Frustration Education of Colleges Students
LIU Donghui
Development and Planning Department, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, Henan, P.R. China,
454003
[email protected]
Abstract: Implementation of frustration education in colleges and universities is useful to cultivate
good psychological quality and improve the level of mental health of college students. This paper
analyzes the necessity of implementing and strengthening frustration education of college students.
Through the questionnaire investigation, the main types of setback were summarized and the formation
reasons were analyzed, and the main reasons of frustration formation of college student were clarified.
Furthermore, the paper points out some effective ways to implement frustration education in colleges
and universities, to improve students’ frustration tolerance and to develop their good mental qualities.
Research results are helpful to implement correct frustration education in colleges and universities
effectively.
Keywords: Frustration education, Colleges Students, Mental quality
1 Introduction
Implementation of frustration education in colleges and universities is useful to cultivate good
psychological quality and improve the level of mental health of college students. Living in the period of
rapid economic development, talent competition and dramatic changes of the social environment,
college students face more and more problems such as academic competition, ability to challenge,
interpersonal confusion, love troubles, employment pressure, etc. Because learning and living conditions
are relatively favorable, coupled with our education in the past ignored the frustration of their education,
some college students showed weak mental capacity and poor frustration tolerance. Therefore, the
implementation of frustration education is becoming an important and practical project for college
educators.
2 Necessity of Frustration Education in Colleges and Universities
2.1 Implementation of the frustration education is the need of social progress
From the historical point of view, mankind has created splendid material civilization and spiritual
civilization through continuing transformation and conquers nature, during which difficulties and
setbacks are inevitable. For example, Sunbin wrote famous book "The Art of War” after receiving
torture sentence; Sima Qian finished "Historical Records" even though suffering castration. In modern
times, the world-famous inventor Thomas Edison never gave up after thousands of failure, and finally
invented the electric light, bringing light to mankind; gunpowder king Nobel carried out scientific
research and promote the scientific progress of mankind with the cost of blood and life. Today we are in
the information age, rapid scientific development and social progress will bring us more and greater
setbacks and difficulties. As a master of tomorrow's world, college students need stronger frustration
tolerance and the spirit of advance despite difficulties on the basis of the succession of tremendous
wealth created by their predecessors.
2.2 Implementation of the frustration education is the need of national development
At present, China has entered a new period of building a moderately prosperous society.
Correspondingly, great changes of the social relations in China have taken place, such as the
increasingly fierce competition for survival, accelerating pace of life, more complex relationships, more
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frequently job switching, overload of the employment pressure, laid-off, unemployment and so on.
Although the students are still in the college, those changes in society have slowly infiltrated into the
campus. All students are required to have a strong psychological adaptation and the ability of
anti-frustration.
In addition, in today's era with increasingly fierce international competition, if our country wants to win
the international competition in the future, the talents must possess not only profound knowledge,
advanced moral character and physically robust body, but also strong will, ability, strong ability of
self-improvement and resisting frustration and healthy psychology. So, in addition to scientific and
cultural knowledge can be taught in college, to develop strong will and the ability of frustration
tolerance becomes more significant for these college students.
2.3 Implementation of the frustration education is the need of achieving their development of
college students
In order to realize their value of life in fierce competition, college students must have ability to
overcome difficulties and setbacks. However, the talents trained in traditional Chinese-style nurse-like
family and school education model have not reach to the real society standards. So the implementation
of frustration education in colleges and universities in a timely manner has the positive influence on the
college students to successful complete their changes in social roles.
2.4 Implementation of the frustration education broadens the way of quality education in
universities
Quality education is to promote the overall development of students. Under the guidance of scientific
talent view, universities should take the frustration education as an important part of quality education to
help students face the frustration and promote overall development.
3 Main Setback Types of College Students
It is necessary to clarify the main types of setbacks and find the formation reasons in order to strength
the frustration education. Therefore, the author designed a questionnaire in November 2010, in Henan
Polytechnic University. A sample survey was carried out in freshman, sophomore, junior and senior.
There are 70 students in the four grades, including 62.5% boys and 37.5% girls. 50.6% of the students
are only children, 64% of them are from rural areas. There are 262 valid questionnaires in the total 280
questionnaires. Large amounts of information about frustration tolerance of college students were
learned from the questionnaires. Through questionnaire, the main source of frustration of college
students was shown in Figure 1.
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Figure 1 Main source of frustration of college students
It can be seen that the source of frustrations mainly including four areas: learning, interpersonal
interaction, love and employment, among which learning setback is the primary type, interpersonal
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interaction, love and employment are also an important sources of frustration.
From the survey results, students have clearly felt the presence of frustration. Meeting a variety of
setbacks in their study and work is very common, which shows the reality of school life has given
college students a virtually setback lesson. Although most students can face reality, look for both
subjective and objective reasons, correctly evaluate and position themselves, there is still certain
proportion of students choosing the negative option, which indicates that these students are not able to
self-understand, lack abilities of
solving problem, interpersonal interaction and adapting to the
environment. Those students should be more concerned in college education.
3.1 Learning frustration
College students come from across the country. Because they are outstanding person in high school,
they have higher self-expectations and clear sense of superiority. But because of the imbalance level of
national college education, too many talents in campus, some advantages will be not prominent. On the
other hand, teaching method in university is different from the high schools, such as more courses and
fewer class hours, flexible teaching methods and so on, which makes the students who may master
science learning method in high schools can not adapt the college life. On the one hand, these student
hope to maintain the best like in high school, on the other hand, they can not stabilize learning emotion,
producing lost emotions and boredom and burnout in learning psychology.
3.2 Interpersonal frustration
From the survey results, 49.5% of the students think that the frustration comes from the interpersonal
interaction, among whom, 46.7% of students are from cit, 52.6% of students are from rural areas.
Students try to understand the world and build the friendship through interpersonal interaction. However,
growing experiences, living habits, value view and other aspects of college students are very different,
so it is often difficult for the students to adapt to each other, which will inevitably leads to disharmony in
the life. For example, college student Ma jiajue from the Yunnan University can not handle properly
interpersonal relationship with classmates, personally killed four of his classmates only because of a
little conflict when playing cards.
3.3 Love setbacks
The problems produced for love frustration of the students have attracted great attentions of colleges and
the whole community. In recent years, love setbacks of college students’ present new features: the
number is significantly increasing; the age is becoming younger; love psychology is not mature; female
is easier to meet love frustration than boys. A lot of students lost their learning interests, even lost
morality and mind.
3.4 Career setbacks
With the universal enrollment of colleges and universities in recent years, the employment situation is
becoming increasingly difficult to make some college students produce depression, anxiety, frustration
psychological experience, thinking “graduation is equal to unemployment”. Many students have
employment bias, outdated employment concepts and the higher expectations of employment. Therefore,
when meeting conflict between ideals and reality, they are easy to produce mental confusion and
negative emotions.
4 Main Reasons of Frustration Formation of College Student
4.1 Individual's own factors.
The higher the self-evaluation, the target is easier divorced from reality, the less chance we meet their
own, and the greater possibility of meeting setbacks. If the students set their own learning goals very
high regardless of their own actual level, a little oversight will make them blame themselves and make
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themselves always live in stress, anxiety and unrest state. And some students may produce some
setbacks such as the target can not be achieved just due to their own physical qualities and some
physical limitations caused by defects.
4.2 Parenting factors
In college students, only children proportion is increasing. Parents only require them to learn well,
create a superior living environment for them, making the children lack of frustration of training. After
the children enter the college, they can not stand even if a little bit of stimulation hindering personal
needs and desires, and are easy to produce psychological setbacks.
4.3 School factors
From the current situation of the country's education, students are trained under the system of
examination-oriented education. Students live in the long-closed campus; exhaust themselves for the
completion of their studies and improvement of test scores, finally lost a lot of quality educational
opportunities and social understanding and hard life experience. Lack of frustration education leads to
the university students can not properly face the new environment and new role. Once they experience
major changes in living environment and conflict, they will be overwhelmed and can not actively face or
ask for help. As a result, they can only choose retreat or escape, leading to the final serious
psychological problems, or even to unusual behavior.
4.4 Social environment factors
At present, the rapid economic development creates a favorable social environment for college students’
development of physical and mental health, but also inevitably brings a negative impact. The social
values view, a crisis of faith, integrity of the crisis has subtle influence on the college students. As they
are in the formative years of personality and ideas, physiology and psychology are between mature and
immature, the changes and impact of the society easily not only lead to inner strong turbulence of the
college students, but also make them feel face many challenges and many suffer from psychological
stress, and make them easy to produce frustrations.
5 Implementation Methods of Frustration Education
5.1 To help students adjust their expectations
Educators should guide the college students to set goals for their own, should encourage students to
build self-confidence, to face and find their own strength, and to clear their deficiencies. For example,
when facing the employment setbacks, the students should be taught to calmly learn their lessons,
analyze the employment situation faced and rationally adjust employment expectation to be consistent
with the social reality.
5.2 To help students improve themselves and increase their strength
Educators must consciously create opportunities for college students to exercise their ability, carefully
arrange for appropriate social activities for them, and enhance students’ strength of competition in the
future.
5.3 To help students master the scientific method of learning
College educators should guide students to be good at correct attitude towards learning, guide them to
carefully learn, reasonably allocate energy and efficiently improve the learning effect. Meanwhile,
educators should actively improve the education system and strengthen the building of teaching staff.
5.4 To help students establish the correct employment view
Colleges and universities must increase efforts in this area, develop employment guidance education by
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stages and levels. Through the special combination of employment guidance courses and individual
interviews, employment status of college students may be understand, and the negative emotions
produced in employment process can be dredged in time.
5.5 To exert important influence of classroom teaching on the love frustration education
Educator in college should be good at engaging in research and in-depth investigation to achieve the
definite purpose. Meanwhile, they should make friends with the students truly, understand the inner
world of the students, guide and relieve students’ stress for love frustration.
5.6 To play the role of "psychological counseling" agencies in college
On the one hand, the staffs of psychological counseling agency in colleges and universities can be
composed of not only counseling professionals, but also assistants and teachers in charge of class,
enabling students to receive timely frustrated psychological guidance. On the other hand, the
establishment of the agencies should be diversified, for example, the agency can be set up independently
by different sex to facilitate consultation for the college students.
6 Conclusion
6.1 Through questionnaire, the main source of frustration of college students including learning,
interpersonal interaction, love and employment.
6.2 Through analysis of the formation reasons of psychological setback, implementation methods of
frustration education in colleges and universities were pointed out. It can be concluded that
implementation of frustration education becomes more significant for these college students to improve
frustration tolerance and develop their good psychological quality.
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