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With the rapid development of society and the process of modernization, the mental health problems of college students have gradually attracted people's attention. Mental health problems have become an important factor affecting college students' study, life, and development. In China, the mental health problems of adolescents are diverse, with the phenomenon of suicide occurring at a higher rate than in the past. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students in China, accounting for about 33.3% of deaths in this population. These college students have serious psychological problems (Qiu, 2017). Therefore, strengthening the education and guidance to encourage college students' mental health and creating a social environment conducive to college students' mental health have become an important task of today's university education (Sumin et al., 2014).
The mental health of college students not only affects their well-being as individuals, but it also affects the long-term development of the country and society (Zhang, 2021). Therefore, it is of great theoretical and practical significance to study how to effectively improve the mental health of college students (Jiang, 2021). The psychological health of college students is the foundation for the establishment of good ideological and moral concepts, and it has a positive effect on college students' ideological education. The purpose of ideological education is to enhance people's ability to understand and transform the world. People gradually perceive and understand the world through interaction with the outside world and accumulation of experience, and then approach and interpret the world according to their own subjective experiences and perspectives.
According to the data released by the Ministry of Education, the total number of college graduates of China in 2022 is expected to exceed 10 million, and the number of college graduates will reach a record high 11.67 million in 2022. The number of college graduates in China from 2015 to 2022 is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Number of college graduates in China from 2015 to 2022
Based on the information in Figure 1, the increasing number of college graduates will have a certain impact on the employment market. College students need to continuously improve their abilities and skills to adapt to changes in the workplace. This need has placed more challenges and psychological pressure to college students. Therefore, with the increase in the number of college graduates, the psychological health of college students needs to be given sufficient attention.
College students' mental health includes their proactive practical understanding, rich and objective interpersonal emotions, character of will, and reasonable and standardized behavior and activities. Traditional ideological educators of college students typically attribute the problems presented by college students to ideological problems, ignoring the exploration of their psychological problems. The interactive mechanism formed between mental health education and ideological education can open up an effective way for the ideological education of college students. The purpose of this paper is to explore the guidance of college students' mental health and the construction of social environments based on ideological education, so as to improve the level of college students' mental health. Specifically, purpose of this paper includes the following two parts: 1) to explore the influence and mechanism of ideological education on college students' mental health, so as to explore effective mental health education and guidance methods, and 2) to analyze the influencing factors and mechanism of social environments on college students' mental health, and put forward specific measures and suggestions to improve the social environment.