The influence of college physical education on students' psychological quality from the perspective of ideological and political education

Abstract

In the modern era, college students with psychological problems have occasionally exhibited various extreme behaviors. Therefore, the psychological health education colleges and universities provide to college students needs to be enhanced. In contrast, the psychological health education provided to the subset of college students majoring in physical education is not comprehensive and in-depth. This study investigates the effect of college physical education on students' psychological well-being from the standpoint of ideological and political education. As the research object, college students from five institutions in a city were selected using cluster sampling. One thousand college students are surveyed to determine their mental health status. Regarding interpersonal sensitivity and anxiety symptoms, depression, paranoia, and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, the mental health level of the experimental group improved significantly after the experiment compared to before the investigation. In the control group, except for the significant improvement in interpersonal sensitivity, the mean value of the other factors did not change significantly. The experimental group's mental health was considerably better than that of the control group after the experiment, and there were significant differences in interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, and depression.