The online evaluation of young people nowadays is mixed. Although modern youth, with only children as the main body, have a broad perspective, motivation, and comprehensive qualities, they seem to be more impulsive and irritable than the previous generation. Once encountering setbacks or rejections, they are prone to overreact, and even fail to recover, showing a particularly fragile psychological state. So, why is the psychology of young people fragile?
A young man who encounters the problem of heartbreak feels that no woman in the world is trustworthy, and has a desire to retaliate against women; A young man participated in the recruitment of grassroots management personnel in a company, but was not admitted despite achieving high written test results. Due to his high ambition, eagerness to win, and low psychological resilience to setbacks and failures, he committed suicide by jumping off a building; A recent college graduate participated in the national civil service exam and met the requirements for both the initial and secondary exams. However, due to physical reasons, he was not admitted and was found to have engaged in favoritism and fraud. He brought a knife into the competent department to kill relevant personnel
Multicultural causes inner conflicts
The emergence of this fragile mentality among young people is due to the background of social development. Foreign cultures and values are impacting the value orientation of the younger generation. For example, many commercial institutions nowadays seize the characteristics of young people's high emotional fluctuations, lack of self-control, extreme problem-solving, and sometimes inability to distinguish right from wrong. They regard this generation of young people as the main body of cultural and material consumption, and make conspicuous consumption a fashion for young people to pursue and believe in. The pursuit of traditional collectivist values such as caring for the future of the nation and the country, pursuing truth, and silently dedicating oneself has been ignored. On the other hand, various unhealthy tendencies in real society cause young people to forget, reduce or lose their sense of responsibility to their families and society in psychological confusion. Various negative psychology such as decadence, selfishness, and love to complain become the dominant factor in words and actions, making them extremely vulnerable psychologically.
The psychological fragility of young people is also related to their age. They are not deeply involved in the world and are in a period of changing roles and identities, and must face many problems that they have never experienced or experienced before. For young people who are accustomed to relying on their parents, it is even more difficult to control themselves. As a result, there is no one's own standard for doing things, blindly pursuing social approval, having a single mindset when dealing with problems, loving self negation, fear of failure and setbacks, and other problems have all emerged. As long as young people first break free from dependence, they can completely strengthen themselves.
Solution: Think from multiple perspectives and actively adapt to changes
Contemporary young people have the basic knowledge and skills required to solve problems, but they lack a mentality of adaptability. They often use linear thinking to solve social life problems, and when they encounter a wall, they feel ashamed and unable to bear it. Students often seek multiple solutions to math, physics, and chemistry problems, but when problems such as emotions, economy, marriage and family, employment, learning, and career development are presented one after another or simultaneously, they often forget to give these events the opportunity to solve multiple problems. Society has enough time to evaluate, tolerate, and identify with young people, and to transfer the thinking mode of problem-solving from multiple perspectives to solving practical problems in society.
In addition, it is necessary to guide things to change with a proactive attitude of adaptation. Proactive adaptation refers to the ability to initiate actions that have a positive impact on changes in things and change oneself to better adapt to new things and environments. Modern youth lack active adaptability and are more likely to passively respond to external changes. Once changes cannot be overcome, they will have to passively suffer setbacks. Long term accumulation ultimately leads to psychological fragility. So, it is necessary to adopt a proactive attitude and welcome changes from the outside world.