What Kind of Mental Health Popular Science Resources do College Students Need? —A Grounded Analysis based on College Students’ Cognition

To address the question of “What are the most important characteristics of mental health popular science resources?”, an open-ended questionnaire survey was conducted among 778 college students. Based on the grounded theory research paradigm, the qualitative texts collected were coded at three levels, leading to the following conclusions: (1)The most prominent features of “mental health popular science resources” are 13 in total, namely “vivid and interesting”, “useful”, “close to life”, “easy to understand”, “authentic”, “practical”, “attractive”, “universal”, “healthy”, “positive”, “participatory”, “interactive”, and “in line with interests”. (2) The features that “mental health popular science resources” should possess can ultimately be summarized into three major aspects: “content features”, “form features”, and “dissemination features”.