MORAL EDUCATION GUIDES PEOPLE TO CONSTRUCT THREE DIMENSIONS OF A HAPPY LIFE AND REDUCE EMOTIONAL BARRIERS
Authors: Yan Hai , Ke Qiang 
Published: July 2022

Background

Traditional moral education cuts off the connection between the knowledge world and the life world, denies the important role of life practice in the formation of students' morality, and embodies the disadvantages of knowledge moral education, just like teaching people to swim outside the water from a human perspective, morality, life and happiness are Trinity. Morality is for human life, and life is for happiness. The mission of moral education is to cultivate happy people. Paying attention to people's happiness, guiding the construction of a happy life and reducing emotional barriers are not only the important mission of moral education in the new era, but also the problem to be solved in this study.

Research Objects and Methods

This study takes life moral education as the research object. Starting from life epistemology and moral education, this study adopts literature analysis, qualitative research and interdisciplinary research methods based on the perspectives of psychology, ethics and pedagogy. Taking human life as the research object, this paper analyzes the internal relationship between life and morality from the three dimensions of material life, spiritual life and possible life, expounds the ethical value of moral education in guiding a happy life, demonstrates the realistic path, and establishes a happy life. In order to explore the impact of moral education on the three-dimensional degree of well-being and reduce emotional barriers, this study attempts to conduct a questionnaire survey on 200 subjects from an empirical perspective. The main tool used in the survey is the generalized anxiety disorder-7 (GAD-7). GAD-7 is mainly used to screen the symptoms of generalized anxiety and assess the severity of anxiety. Domestic studies have shown that GAD-7 also has high reliability and validity in Chinese population. There are 7 items in the scale, which are scored at levels 0 (not at all) ~ 3 (almost every day), with a total score of 21 points. ≥ 10 points indicates anxiety. The higher the score, the more serious the anxiety level. The scale Cronbach's α Is 0.93., In addition, the study also used the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) to evaluate the different cognitive emotion regulation strategies selected by individuals after experiencing negative life events. Some scholars have launched a simplified version of cerq18 topics and proved that it has good reliability and validity. There are 18 items and 9 dimensions in the questionnaire, which are self blame, meditation, disaster, blaming others for acceptance, self comfort, refocus on planning, active refocus and active refocus.

Results

The reason why moral education can be related to human happiness is that happiness is the state of human subject consciousness. The essence of moral education is to construct and transform people's subject world, which is directly related to people's internal spiritual activities. A reasonable consumption mode and a reasonable outlook on material life need moral education to cultivate and educate. Moral education must pay attention to the individual spiritual world in order to change people's happy life. People's spiritual happiness is produced in their spiritual life. Only by living a dignified life can one be happy. Moral education is the grasp of a dimension of possible life. It places people's consciousness and behavior in the possible world in real life, and examines and evaluates good and evil according to what should be and what should be. This leads people to pursue ideal mental state and behavior.

Conclusion

Moral education is a special form of life, a purposeful and purposeful activity, which has the characteristics of coexistence of reality and possibility. Moral education should play a unique leading role in people's moral growth, guide people to correctly deal with the relationship between material consumption and material happiness, promote people to realize the unity of spiritual freedom and spiritual happiness, and encourage people to constantly surpass themselves and pursue the truth of their own life. Moral education can show its charm only if it is rooted in life, coexists with life and leads the construction of life. Only by guiding people to be good through moral education and realizing the unity of knowledge and practice can we achieve the goal of happiness in life.

Acknowledgements

Supported by 2019 National Social Science Foundation Educational General Project “Research on Teachers' Anomie of Teachers' Ethics and Professional Ethics Construction from the Perspective of Organizational Ethics” (Grant No.: BEA190114)