100,000 University Freshmen Receive Handbook of Psychological Health As Gifts
Posted on: Saturday, 12 November 2005, 09:00 CST
100,000 university freshmen receive handbook of psychological health as gifts
BEIJING, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- More than 100,000 freshmen in 100 Chinese universities and colleges have received a handbook on psychological health to help them adapt to life in university and society.
The "2005 Handbook of Psychological Soundness for University Entrants" was provided jointly by the Central Committee of Communist Youth League of China, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education and All-China Students' Federation.
The handbook gives entrants health instructions on daily life, study, communication, mood and mentality. It is expected to help entrants adjust to a new environment, learn more about psychological health and maintain mental health.
College and university students have come under mounting pressure from fierce academic and employment competition.
Early last year, a serial murder on campus of Yunnan University aroused nationwide concern about psychological pressure on college students.
The murderer, Ma Jiajue, a former life science major at Yunnan University in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, was described by some of his schoolmates as a hardworking, poor student with fragile self-esteem and a warped mentality.
Some analysts say the young generation as a whole is vulnerable to frequent moodiness and "has gotten lost in a lust for material and physical pleasure."
Sociologists said the pressures of students come mainly from job hunting, acute competition for post-graduate education, love affairs and lack of school assistance in shaping a healthy personality.
Last summer, approximately 2.8 million college graduates joined the fierce competition in China's labor market, as against 2.1 million in the previous year. Only 70 percent of them found jobs, according to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
To help students cultivate a healthy mentality and integrated personality despite increasingly great social pressure, some universities, including Fudan and Beida, added at the beginning of this year a moral curriculum to some courses.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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