Background: As a common mental disease, mental anxiety is the core symptom of anxiety disorder. It is mostly manifested in some different degrees of anxiety, such as tension, irritability, fear and so on. It is very easy to be affected by external stimulating events and show certain limited behavior, emotional bias and related somatization disorders. The phenomenon of mental anxiety of college students is more prominent, and national music education can effectively play the role of music in guiding the emotion of individuals. Therefore, the research provides improvement suggestions for the inheritance and development of national music through the introduction of psychology related theories, so as to give better play to the stimulating effect of music on individual positive emotions and improve the level of psychological cognition, so as to achieve the effect of improving the mental health status of college students. Subjects and methods: Students with mental anxiety in a university were randomly divided into "mental health education + national music education" group and "national music education" group for three months. The simple mental state examination scale and self-rating Anxiety Scale were used to make statistics and analysis on the mental anxiety of the subjects in the improved national music education model. Results: The integration and development of mental health education and national music education can realize the dynamic monitoring and timely intervention of the psychological status of anxious college students, and then give play to the positive psychological hint and emotional guidance of music education to individuals, so as to improve their mental health level. Conclusions: With the help of introducing psychology of folk music education classroom, the teaching design can better meet the psychological needs of college students with mental anxiety, and the proposed teaching method can effectively improve their mental health level.
