Promotive effects of psychological capital development on ideological and political education of college students

Abstract

The development of psychological capital (PsyCap) is closely related to the mental health. It is often adopted to promote the ideological and political education for college students. This paper attempts to determine how PsyCap development affects the ideological and political education in colleges. Therefore, a random survey was carried out among college students in three universities of Nanjing, China, and the survey results were subjected to descriptive analysis and correlation analysis. The results show that PsyCap regulates the learning attitude of students in ideological and political education; the PsyCap development improves the ideological and political education in colleges to some extents; the PsyCap and its dimensions are affected by such factors as gender, grade, major, student origin and academic records. The research results are important for promoting the physical, mental and ideological growth of college students.