ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1650042
The impact of positive psychological intervention on college students' mental health and behavioral performance: the moderating role of teacher empathic concern
Provisionally accepted
- Anhui Science and Technology University, Bengbu, China
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Introduction: College students' mental health and behavioral performance have been a hot topic of concern among scholars. With the heavy academic pressure, high social expectations, and uncertainty about future career development, college students' anxiety and depression aspects have become more and more prominent. However, the relationship between positive heart interventions (subjective well-being and physical exercise), teachers' empathetic attention, college students' mental health and behavioral performance, and their mechanisms still need to be further studied. Methods: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between positive mindfulness interventions and college students' mental health and behavioral performance, and to verify the moderating role of teachers' empathetic attention between the two. In addition, this study examined the current status of positive mindfulness interventions, teachers' empathic concern, mental health and behavioral performance of 260 Chinese university students by means of a questionnaire survey. Results: The results of the study showed that positive heart interventions, subjective well-being, and physical activity had a significant role in promoting college students' mental health and behavioral performance, subjective well-being (β=0.327, P<0.001), (β=0.362, P<0.001), and physical activity ( β=0.254, P<0.001), ( β=0.203, P<0.001). In addition, teachers' empathetic attention played a positive moderating role between positive heart interventions and college students' mental health ( β =0.332, P<0.001). Teachers' empathic concern played a positive moderating role between positive heart intervention and college students' behavioral performance (β=0.223, P<0.001). Conclusion: This study provides valuable suggestions for teachers, doctors, and parents to better safeguard the state of mental health of college students and to regulate the behavioral performance of college students to be consistent with the ideal goals they pursue.
Keywords: 主观幸福感, 体育锻炼, 心理健康, 行为表现, 教师同理心关怀
Received: 19 Jun 2025; Accepted: 21 Oct 2025.
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* Correspondence: Lei Xi, xil@ahstu.edu.cn
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