Digital Transformation of Cultural Resources in Vocational Colleges: A Psychological Empowerment Approach to Student Mental Health_Vol. 2 No. 4 (JHVE 2025)_Journal of Higher Vocational Education (ISSN: 3005-5784)

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Digital Transformation of Cultural Resources in Vocational Colleges: A Psychological Empowerment Approach to Student Mental Health

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jhve.202516409

Author(s)

Tian Yu*, Hui Li

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Chengdu Vocational& Technical College of Industry, Chengdu, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

This study investigates the digital transformation of cultural resources in vocational colleges as a crucial carrier for shaping students’ professional identity and psychological competence. It explores how such transformation empowers the cultivation of cultural identity, autonomy, social connectedness, and psychological capital (PsyCap), addressing the digital era’s need for “dual-focused talent development in technological literacy and positive psychological resources.” Based on a tripartite motivational analysis—covering strategic imperatives, technological enablement, and pedagogical innovation—this study proposes a systematic psychological empowerment mechanism for digital cultural resource transformation. This mechanism includes digital mirroring of psychological traits through intelligent data acquisition; precision psychological well-being provision using knowledge graphs for personalized resource matching; and immersive cognitive-affective fields that transform abstract cultural values into participatory experiences. A corresponding digital transformation roadmap is devised with the goal of psychological empowerment, focusing on technological integration to construct an intelligent support system, ecological restructuring to build a collaborative empowerment community, and institutional innovation to strengthen standardized governance frameworks. Together, these form a synergistic ecosystem that promotes the dual objectives of “integrating ethics with technical skills and holistically cultivating mind and body,” providing paradigmatic support for resilient technical talent development in the digital age.

Keywords

Digital Transformation; Cultural Resources; Psychological Empowerment; Vocational College Students; Mental Health Promotion

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