Exploration of a New Model for Cognitive Intervention and Guidance of College Students’ Anxiety in the Context of Traditional Culture
At present, multiple pressures such as academic involution, employment competition, and interpersonal conflicts are superimposed, leading to a high incidence of anxiety among college students. The intervention model based on Western psychology has shortcomings in local adaptation. The excellent resources of traditional Chinese culture, which contain rich psychological adjustment wisdom such as self-cultivation and introspection, harmony between heaven and man, emotional regulation, and empathy through rituals and music, can be used for local anxiety cognitive intervention. This paper adopts the methods of literature research and logical analysis to sort out the core theoretical resources of traditional culture for alleviating students’ anxiety, analyze the logic of the generation of anxiety among contemporary college students and the existing practical shortcomings of the current counseling work, and construct the internal mechanism of anxiety intervention guided by traditional culture from four dimensions: cognitive intervention, emotional counseling, value adjustment, and practical relaxation. It also builds a new integrated counseling model of “classroom cognitive intervention-campus cultural counseling-home-school collaborative buffering-autonomous practical regulation”. The research finds that Confucian ethical cultivation can correct irrational cognition, Taoist thoughts of harmony between heaven and man can alleviate anxiety caused by academic involution and peer competition, the theory of emotions in traditional Chinese medicine can achieve coordinated regulation of body and mind, and folk ritual and music culture can eliminate social anxiety. Currently, there are problems such as shallow integration of traditional culture in anxiety counseling, the absence of interdisciplinary education mechanisms, a single practical carrier, and insufficient home-school collaboration in colleges. Based on the four-dimensional intervention mechanism and four-subject collaborative path, this model can reconstruct students’ cognitive modes, ease anxious feelings and boost psychological resilience, which offers theoretical foundations and operable strategies for localized psychological intervention addressing college students’ anxiety.
Keywords: Traditional Culture, College Students, Anxiety Psychology, Cognitive Intervention, Psychological Counseling Model
