Intervention study on enhancing well-being of freshmen in military universities based on Wechat platform

Abstract

Objective To explore the efficacy of Wechat platform-based positive psychology intervention on the well-being in freshmen in military universities. Methods Two stages of experiments were carried out. In the first stage, 67 cadets were subjected from the classroom teaching class of a military university by cluster sampling, and were assigned into an experimental group (n=30) and a control group (n=37) according to their own willing. The participants of the experimental group were asked to follow WeChat official account "Happiness Promotion Training Camp" and write records of "mindfulness meditation", "putting complaints aside" and "three good things" every day, but those of the control group had no such interventions. In the second stage, 161 cadets were sampled as above and autonomously divided into experimental group (n=74) and the control group (n=87). The experimental group followed the official account "Happiness Promotion Training Camp" and recorded "three good things" every day, and the other group received no such intervention. In both stages, Miao Yuanjiang's Multiple Happiness questionnaire (MHQ) was used to evaluate the participants of the 2 groups before and after intervention. Results ① In the first stage, after 4 weeks, the experimental group got significantly higher well-being than the control group, mainly in the dimensions of life satisfaction, health concern and self-worth. ② In the second stage, there was no significant difference in the increase of well-being between the experimental group and the control group after 8 weeks. It may be related to the matching of intervention activities and target groups, the subjects' motivation and the simplicity of intervention activities. Conclusion WeChat platform-based comprehensive positive psychology intervention can improve the well-being of cadets, but the effect of single psychological intervention is not good.

Keywords

• cadets
• positive psychology interventions
• wechat platform
• well-being