Under the guidance of the idea of “health is the first” in the new era, more attention has been paid to the education of students’ physical and mental health. In 2018, Ministry of Physical, Health and Arts Education of the Department of Education established the Four-in-one Goal for school physical education in the new era---- enjoyment, physique, personality and perseverance. As a traditional sport in China, Chinese martial arts, which is also called Wushu, has a unique way to promote a healthy personality and develop perseverance. Therefore, this study takes Wushu culture as the theoretical basis to conduct a 12-week experiment on students by teaching them Changquan, a sort of Wushu. This study found that Wushu has a positive effect on the psychological resilience of female college students, because there was a statistical difference in their psychological resilience before and after the experiment. In addition, sophomores showed a higher level of psychological resilience than freshmen; while freshmen were more likely to improve it than sophomores.

Jingnan Yu. Health is the first: Research on the Influence of Wushu Class on Psychological Resilience of Female College Students. Frontiers in Educational Research (2022) Vol. 5, Issue 11: 16-24. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2022.051104.

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