Introduction: The Internet has caused a great impact on everyone’s psychology. Under this background, it is necessary to study whether Marxism can affect college students’ mental health.
Methods: Firstly, the introduction explains China’s concern for college students’ mental health and the research achievements. Then, in the method part, this paper analyzes the thoughts and connotations of basic Marxist theory, quality education, and mental health education, mainly studying the changes brought by the Internet to the development of Marxism and the mechanism and influence of Marxism on mental health education. The questionnaire survey is used to investigate the mental health of college students and the current situation of Marxist ideological and political education.
Results: The results show that most college students are not interested in ideological and political education, and from the investigation results of five major factors of life stressors and five indicators of psychological crisis factors, it is concluded that college students’ life stressors are the risk factors that induce psychological crisis tendency.
Discussion: The discussion part shows that it is necessary to cultivate the core quality of college students’ development through Marxism, and pay attention to actively preventing and intervening the psychological crisis of college students. This paper analyzes and confirms the effectiveness of Marxist theory on the development of mental health, injects fresh blood into the future ideological and political education and the research of college students’ mental health education, and provides theoretical and experimental reference and new ideas. The research has practical reference value for promoting the deep integration of data-driven Marxist basic theory and college students’ mental health monitoring.
Keywords: basic theory of Marxism, mental health of college student, data driven, ideological and political education