Current mental health education programs in higher education still face several obstacles in fostering young people’s social responsibility, especially the insufficient recognition of students’ individual needs and the limited opportunities provided for handling conflicts related to undergraduates’ sense of responsibility. In response to these issues, this study develops a methodological framework to assess how mental health education influences young people’s social responsibility, and the questionnaire is organized into three sections: basic information, the mental health education course evaluation scale, and the student social responsibility evaluation scale. After establishing validity and reliability of the questionnaire, it was distributed through online platforms and paper media. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis in SPSS 17.0 were used to evaluate the effect of the mental health curriculum of the university on the social responsibility of students. It was established that the explanatory power is 81.5%. Furthermore, the results obtained from the regression equation have demonstrated a positive effect of the courses on the social responsibility of students with the following coefficients: 0.163 (participation in national-responsibility activities), 0.612 (integration of responsibility topics), 0.645 (satisfaction with the course format) and 0.657 (module recognition).
