effects of supervised movie appreciation on the improvement of college students’ life meaning sense监督电影欣赏对提高大学生生命意义感.pdfVIP

Vol.2, No.7, 804-810 (2010) Health doi:10.4236/health.2010.27121 Effects of supervised movie appreciation on the improvement of college students’ life meaning sense Xinqiang Wang1,2, Dajun Zhang1,2*, Jinliang Wang1,2, Hui Xu1,2, Min Xiao1,2 1Center for Student’s Mental Health Education, Southwest University, Chongqing, China; * Corresponding Author: zhangdj@ 2Research Institute of Educational Science; Southwest University, Chongqing, China Received 27 December 2009; revised 20 March 2010; accepted 23 March 2010. ABSTRACT of crisis and serious frustration [1-5]. Therefore, it may effectively prevent college students’ mental illness and The purpose of this study was to explore the suicide and maintain a mental healthy state, by imple- effects of supervised movie appreciation on menting active intervention for college students [6,7]. improving the life meaning sense among col- However, few empirical studies in the psychology arena lege students. The intervention combined by have been conducted to explore the effective ways to “pre-video, post counseling” was conducted on achieve this goal. the experimental group, while the control group Educators are, in recent years, increasingly focusing received no intervention. Results have shown on the integration of multiple approaches and modes to that the scores on the subscales of will to