With the increasingly fierce social competition, the psychological anxiety of college students has become increasingly prominent. Labor education in the new era, as a comprehensive activity, can play an intervention role in the treatment of psychological anxiety of college students through actual labor experience and social support.

A total of 300 college students with psychological anxiety were selected and divided into a control group and an experimental group. The control group maintained normal study and life. The experimental group participated in a labor education course with a total duration of 8 weeks, and added emotional management skills training in the process of labor education. The Hamilton Depression Scale and the well-being Scale were used to test the student status before and after the course.

The results showed that after the completion of the course, the score of Hamilton depression scale in the experimental group decreased significantly (P < 0.05), from 18.3±4.2 before the course to 12.7±3.1 after the course; In the control group, the Hamilton Depression Scale score decreased from 24.3±4.4 to 21.6±3.8. The happiness scale score of the experimental group was significantly improved (P < 0.05), from 28.6±5.1 before the course to 36.2±6.3 after the course.

It shows that labor education in the new era has a positive effect on college students’ psychological anxiety, and can be applied to the treatment of college students’ psychological anxiety.