In order to help students understand the physiological and psychological mechanisms of emotional changes, enhance self-knowledge, and help cultivate a healthy and stable emotional regulation ability, the College carried out the 2023 Psychology Salon Series - Emotion Regulation in the evening of 22 November in the Counselling Room of the Psychological Centre. This activity was organised by the "Hand in Hand" Psychological Support Association.
In this activity, Niu Siqi, a trainer of the Association, guided the students to record their favourite and most loathed things on a piece of paper, and then led them to think: when they hate something, do they also love its opposite? This made the students reflect on whether they had rejected their favourite things due to emotional manipulation in their lives. Immediately afterwards, the students engaged in an interactive role-playing session. Assuming that they were on a desert island, they took on the roles of different professions and thought about how each of them would face a difficult situation. This session aimed to make students realise that identity differences can also lead to different reactions to emotions. At the end of the session, everyone shared their own moments of emotional outbursts and successful self-regulation. During the event, the students delved into the question: are we influenced by hormones and manipulated by impulses in different environments? "Weak people let their emotions control their behaviour, while strong people let their behaviour control their emotions" The aim of this psychological salon was precisely to help students understand their emotions and become masters of them.
Through this psychological salon, students learnt about the physiological and psychological mechanisms of emotions and the related knowledge of regulating their own emotions. In their future study and life, students will apply the knowledge they have learnt to cope with the challenges in life with a more mature mindset, and maintain themselves better in the various emotional orientations they face in college life. The College will continue to endeavour to provide students with adequate psychological support and help them grow up in a healthy and sunny way.
