Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The mental health challenges among Chinese adolescents have become more and more important these days. Education plays a vital role in shaping their mental health during a critical development stage marked by self-exploration and changeable emotion. This paper will examine the cultural roots and the consequences of “authoritarian education” and “Suffering-Based Education”, which are two traditional pedagogical models characterized by excessive Chinese academic competition, and emotional suppression. Through literature analysis, the study reveals that such practices contribute to self-abasement, anxiety and depression. It further criticizes the contradictions between China’s exam-oriented education system and the evolving needs of modern society. To address these issues, the paper proposes school-level pedagogical innovations, and family communication strategies. By supporting a positive educational ecosystem that prioritizes students’ self-development, this research offers psychological sights of adolescents into the China’s current education system.
Source: SHS Web of Conferences
Author: Gandi Xue
Institution: Shanghai University of Engineering Science
Language: English
Topic: Student Stress and Coping
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4413176965