The influence of peer pressure and “Nei Juan” on school life

内卷与同辈压力对学习生活的影响

 

Introduction：As the competition among peers becomes more and more fierce, "Nei Juan" has become more and more common among students. From kindergarten children who have learn the primary school content to college students who face the pressure of graduate examination, "Nei Juan” has become the normal for every dream chaser.

引言：随着同辈之间的竞争越来越激烈，“内卷“已经成为了当代学生的口头禅。从已经“卷”到小学内容的幼儿园小孩到面对考研压力的大学生，”内卷已经成为每个追梦人的常态。

 

1.What is “Nei Juan”?

1、内卷是什么？

 

“Nei Juan”is a popular Internet term that refers to irrational internal competition or "being willing" to compete. Now refers to the competition among peers to make more efforts to compete for more favorable resources. Today we will explore the positive and negative effects of “Nei Juan“ on learning life.

内卷是一种网络流行用语，指代非理性的内部竞争或“被自愿”竞争。现指同行间竞相付出更多努力以争夺更有利的资源。今天我们要探究内卷对学习生活的正面与负面影响。

 

2. The positive influence of “Nei Juan“ on study and life

2、内卷对学习生活的正面影响

 

When we find that people around us are in the “Nei Juan“, we will also "beat and join" to learn together. In this way, a good learning atmosphere is formed, and everyone learns together, which is not so boring. When we make efforts, we always get good results. In this way, our interest in learning will be stronger, and a virtuous circle will be formed. As grades get better, parents get happier, and the family atmosphere gets better. According to a 2016 survey, more than 30% of students think that the relationship with their parents is "not so good" or even "awful", and most of the reasons are because of the decline in grades. When we have a group of friends around us, we will join them and improve our grades,and the home atmosphere will be improved.

当我们发现身边的人都在卷，我们也会“打不过就加入”地跟着一起学习。这样，就形成了一个良好的学习氛围，大家在一起学习，也没那么枯燥了。当我们付出了努力，总会收获好的结果。这样，我们对学习的兴趣就更加浓厚了，就形成了一个良性循环。成绩越来越好，家长也越来越高兴，家庭氛围也能变得更加融洽，因为据2016年的调查显示，有超过三成的学生认为与父母的关系“不太融洽”甚至”很糟糕“，而其中的大部分原因是因为成绩的下滑。当身边有一群内卷的朋友，我们也会加入他们，从而提升成绩。改善家庭氛围。

 

3. The negative influence of “Nei Juan” on study and life

3、内卷对学习生活的负面影响

 

With the increasing of “Nei Juan”，it will also have a lot of negative effects on students. When students struggle all night for internal exams, it means less sleep time, and the quality of sleep is poor, which directly affects the quality of learning in class, and the efficiency of learning is low, because through a night of learning, they are exhausted. If this goes on for a long time, the learning efficiency will decline because the body cannot carry it, and the performance in school will also show a downward trend. Classmates will gradually distance you from your poor study, teachers criticize the quality of your work, and parents will put more pressure on you, affecting the physical and mental health of students. The more and more pressure, the weaker and weaker body is, you will find that it seems you cannot have a better mark than the good classmates. However, when you want to rest, you are worried about the increasing number of “Nei Juan”, and you will lag behind with a little relief. This creates a vicious circle. When students become more and more negative, they will turn to electronic products to seek spiritual comfort. With Internet addiction, the conflict between students and parents becomes deeper and deeper. Therefore, “Nei Juan“ has a great negative impact on students.

随着“内卷”情况越来越普遍，内卷也对学生产生了不少负面影响。当学生为了内卷而通宵奋斗，那意味着睡眠时间变少了，而且睡眠质量也差了，直接影响上课的学习质量，学习效率低下，因为通过一晚上的学习，已经精疲力尽了。这样长期下去，学习效率会因为身体扛不住而下降，成绩也呈下滑趋势了。同学会认为你学习差而慢慢疏远你，老师不断地批评你的作业质量，家长也给你施加更多的压力，影响学生的身心健康。压力愈来愈大，身体越来越弱，你会发现你似乎卷不过好的同学了。可是想休息一下时，又担心内卷的人数越来越多，稍松一口气都会落后。这样形成了一个恶性循环。当学生越来越消极，就会去和电子产品打交道，以此寻求心灵上的慰藉。有了网瘾，学生与家长的矛盾就越来越深了。所以，内卷对学生的负面影响很大。

 

4.Loopy Chart

4、LOOPY图

 

Please take a look at this LOOPY chart. We set several major variables: the number of students enrolled, the learning atmosphere, grades and quality, and the physical and mental health of students.

请大家看这张LOOPY图，我们设置了几个主要变量：内卷人数、学习氛围，成绩及质量和学生身心健康。

 

Running for 10 seconds: There are a lot of people in the paper, the learning atmosphere is also very good, the pressure of students is small, the psychology is also very healthy, the results are also very good, the overall situation is very optimistic.

运行10秒：内卷人数很多，学习氛围也很好，学生压力小，心理也十分健康，成绩同时也很好，整体情况十分乐观。

 

 

Run for 30 seconds: The number of people in the volume suddenly has a great fluctuation, and the other changes are not much.

运行30秒:内卷人数与身心健康突然有了极大波动，其他无太大变化。

 

After running for 1 minute, students' learning quality declined and parents' criticism followed, but the learning atmosphere was still very stable.

运行1分钟，学生的学习质量有下滑，家长的批评随之而来，家庭氛围逐渐变差，但学习氛围仍十分稳定。

 

When running for 5 minutes， students' pressure increases, and the quality of homework completion deteriorates. Grade-point averages dropped, and parental anger soared.

运行5分钟时，学生压力增大，由于睡眠不足导致学习及作业完成质量变差。平均成绩下降，家长生气程度大幅增长，家庭氛围不容乐观，身心健康也受到极大影响。

 

Conclusion: Everything has both good and bad sides, and the influence of the “Nei Juan” is not absolute. After our investigation, we found that at the beginning, the internal volume can benefit us a lot, but for a long time, the negative impact is obviously greater than the positive impact. Therefore, we should have a degree on “Nei Juan”, so that we can make greater progress.

总结：凡事都有好和坏两方面，内卷带来的影响也不是绝对的。经过我们的探究，发现一开始内卷，可以使我们受益良多，内但卷久了，负面影响就明显大过于正面影响了。所以内卷应有个度，才能使我们有更大进步。