Yuxuan Li's blog

Interview This week I managed to set up an interview with Mr. Zhong, who graduated from the University of Toronto, is a counsellor and currently owns a private practice. 1. How do you think the trends generated by social media affect the real life of Gen-Z? Social media has already affected the real life of…

Reading Before I implemented my intervention, I was reading the book Skärmhjärnan (Screen Brain) by Anders Hansen. Why can’t we let go of our mobile phones? This question haunts Anders Hansen, Sweden’s leading mental health expert, who builds on his research and creatively combines brain science, human evolution, and psychology to dissect why gadgets and…

I’ve tried contacting psychologists, both those who work at the school, those who work at the hospital and those who consult via the internet. Unfortunately most of them are very busy with work and I’ve only got an appointment for about two weeks from now at the moment. However I have sent messages to a…

In order to better understand Gen-Z’s state of mind and life, I decided to ask the people who are most familiar with dealing with them, that is, their teachers. As long as I was back in Beijing, China, I first went back to Beijing Lu Xun High School and Beijing No. 44 High School, where…

This week’s tutorial is very important to me. Until now I have felt very burdened by the use of blogs, I was afraid that the ideas and thoughts I uploaded to the web would not be ‘perfect’ enough to be seen by others. As the results of the previous questionnaire were not what I had…

I posted a questionnaire about FOMO to my friends and also on social medias for people to answer. The purpose of this questionnaire was to understand Gen-Z’s habits, preferences, and mental health impacts in social media use. By collecting information on Gen-Z’s length of social media use, preferred apps, content of interest, mental health impacts,…

I have conducted research on ways to relieve stress. The ‘20-minute park effect’ says that spending at least 20 minutes in a natural environment, especially a park, can significantly reduce stress, enhance mood and lift spirits. For example, after a stressful workday, choose to go for a walk in a nearby park. With the sun…

The herd mentality is an important reason that cause FOMO, so I did some reading about it. Spiral of Silence is a political science and mass communication theory proposed by German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann in the 1970s. The theory states that in a public environment, people tend to hide opinions that are different and…

Dragons Den I got a lot of feedback through this week’s Dragons Den section, which is very helpful at the beginning of a project, but it also left me with some confusion. Firstly, I was advised that the topic was not unique enough and that meditation is a method that everyone knows, so maybe I…

This week I did more research on anxiety and social media. Social media didn’t invent FOMO, so I wanted to know how previous generations understood FOMO and what made them feel anxious when they were 18-20 years old. I conducted interviews with my parents and grandparents, trying to find some cultural connection at that age.…