Author(s)

Yunfei Cao ¹, Fengxue Zhu ¹, Qing Wei ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Teacher Education, Chengdu University, Chengdu, China

Corresponding Author

Yunfei Cao

ABSTRACT

Junior high school students are in a sensitive period of physical and mental development. Their rapid physical growth forms a sharp contrast with their relative immaturity, leading to significant contradictions and instability in self-consciousness. If not properly guided, this cognitive imbalance may result in cognitive bias, which will have a long-term impact on students' personal growth and psychological health. Developing appropriate self-consciousness mechanisms in junior high school students is crucial to promoting the overall development in junior high school students is of great significant for promoting the overall development of students' personality and establishing a robust foundation for them to adapt to the learning environment and daily life more effectively. The present analyzes the Mental Health Teaching Materials published by Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press. Based on this analysis, effective ways for junior high school students at various developmental stages to establish correct self-consciousness are proposed, including promoting students' comprehensive and objective self-knowledge and evaluation through methods such as self-reflection exercises and peer-assessment feedback, as well as mastering self-emotion regulation strategies and cultivating the habit of self-reflection. These insights are expected to offer practical and actionable references, enabling middle school mental health educators to design more effective and targeted curriculum content that can truly help students in their self-development process.

KEYWORDS

Self-consciousness; Junior high school students; mental health education; Mental Health Teaching Materials

CITE THIS PAPER

Yunfei Cao, Fengxue Zhu, Qing Wei, Research on Strategies for Cultivating Correct Self-consciousness of Junior High School Students: A Case Study of the Mental Health Teaching Material Published by The Jiangsu Phoenix Science and Technology Press. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2025) Vol. 9: 86-92. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2025.090111.

REFERENCES

[1] Ma, C. et al (2021). Mutual promotion of physical activity and well-being mediating effects based on college students' peer relationships and self-perceptions [J]. Chinese Journal of Health Psychology, 12 (02): 1-15.
[2] Lawrence A. P., & Oliver P. J. (2003). Translated by Huang, X. T. Handbook of personality: theory and research [M]. Shanghai: East China Normal University Press.
[3] Han, J. Z., &Wei, H. Z. (1985). A survey study on the development of self- consciousness in primary and secondary schools in China [J]. Psychological Development and Education, (1): 15-18.
[4] Cheng, L. H., & Zeng, X. H. (2000). Research on the development of self-awareness in adolescent students [J]. Psychological Development and Education, (01): 12-18.
[5] Shen, T., & Wang, F. F. (2003). A study of junior high school students' self-awareness and its influencing factors [J]. China School Nurse, (06): 481-483.
[6] Huo, X. Y. (2015). A study of picture book reading and self-knowledge cultivation in the lower elementary school [J]. Extracurricular Language, (16): 162.
[7] Zhao, Y. Y., & Wang, G. C. (2018). Effective application of self-portrait projection technology in teaching self-awareness in mental health class [J]. Liaoning Education, (8): 52-53.
[8] Wang, J. (2019). Educational Strategies and Their Practices for Cultivating Children's Self-Awareness in Middle School [J]. Educational Practice and Research, 35 (18): 77-78.
[9] Sun, X. (2020). Exploration of self-awareness education for middle school students [J]. Psychology and Education Forum, 54 (1): 70-72.
[10] Liu, L. H. (2017). The application of self-awareness in the mental health education of middle school students [J]. Modern Education Foru, 57(8): 75-77.
[11] Song, S. Y. (2012). Cultivating middle school students' self-management and self-knowledge [J]. New curriculum (next), (04): 74.
[12] Ji, W., & Xie, Q. F. (2015). Discussion on the analysis and preparation principle of teaching materials for secondary school students' mental health education [J]. China Rural Health Care Management, 35(06): 759-761.
[13] Chen, Y. (2020). An analysis and review of the "self" module of mental health teaching materials [J]. Psychology Monthly, (17): 26-27.

Sponsors, Associates, and Links

---

• Curriculum and Teaching Methodology
  
  
• Transactions on Comparative Education
  
  
• Applied & Educational Psychology
  
  
• Advances in Vocational and Technical Education
  
  
• Adult and Higher Education