Abstract: Aiming to determine the effect of group counseling on the promotion of psychological capital appreciation of students with left-behind experience,we enlisted volunteer subjects from students with left-behind experience in Southwest Petroleum University (SWPU). And through a questionnaire survey and a contrastive study on the experimental group and control group with pre-test and post-test,we find out that the experimental group scores significantly higher in the post-test than they did in the pre-test while the control group scores in the post-test did not exhibit significant difference from those in the pre-test. The experimental group scores in the post-test are significantly higher than those of the control group. The majority of the students in the experimental group felt satisfied with and made positive comments on the counseling,saying that they gained a new positive attitude to their past experience.

Key words: group counseling, the left-behind experience, university students, psychological capital, single factor betweensubjects experimental design