Intervention effect of physical education on mental health of collage students

Abstract

The mental health of college students has attracted the attention from various parties, including but not limited to their families, the schools and educational experts. This paper mainly explores the intervention effect of physical education on the mental health of college students. First, a physical education intervention plan was designed, covering gymnastics, martial arts and ball games. Then, a contrastive experiment was carried out on some sophomores and seniors, who were selected carefully from three universities in Shijiazhuang, China. The mental health of the subjects was measured before and after the experiment through interview and questionnaire survey, using several famous psychometric tools. The experimental results show that the experimental group outshined the control group in all the indices of mental health, especially the positive emotion. This means the intervention of physical education could significantly improve the mental health of college students. The overall emotional state of the experimental group was not constant in back test, but still better than that of the control group. The research results lay the basis for teaching intervention of mental health in colleges.