Preliminary Study On Hani And Yi Undergraduates' Ethnic Identity And Attentional Bias

Ethnic identity is an important way for individuals to acquire sense of satisfaction and security, by looking for the differences between "my group" and "his group". It is also important for social adaptation and mental health improvements and so the national psychological quality is. It can improve the psychological formation mechanism of ethnic identity and play a certain role in empirical support to heritage and development of ethnical culture that research on attention bias processing characteristics in different levels of national identity. Hani and Yi Nationalities in Yunnan is two of more than 1 million native peoples, it has been studied the ethnic identity of minorities in southwest China, but lack of special research to some individual nation, especially lack of empirical research of implicit ethnic identity for minorities. Furthermore, it is little know that how minorities change collective cultural into individual's cognitive system, so is the ethnic processing characteristics stopping at the level of description and survey. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship and structural features between Hani and Yi explicit and implicit ethnic identity, probe preliminarily informational processing features of national symbols for Hani, discuss the relationship of ethnic identity and attention bias, and explore initially the formation mechanism of ethnic identity.The present study procedures are as following:from literature analysis to propose the studying questions and hypothesis, and to design and implement the studying plans, and to analyse the studying outcomes and confirm the hypothesis. It is explored Hani and Yi characteristics of age, gender, nation and place of residence through ethnic identity questionnaire. Based on other implicit association test and interviewing with students, sorting and filtering assorted entries, it is edited the computer program of implicit ethnic identity test to measure. Combined with explicit measurement of ethnic identity, all the participants are divided into different group to join in attention bias experiment of national representation, whose stimulus is collected Hani and Yi national representation by questionnaire. Editing the probe detection task for experiment, the purpose is to explore the relationship between ethnic identity and attention bias, providing theoretical and empirical evidence for information processing and formation styles of ethnic identity. Based on comprehensive analysis of these studying results, the main conclusions as follows:(1) The ethnic identity structure of Hani and Yi undergraduate student is the same, including a four-dimensional structure as sense of belonging, acceptance degree, cultural identity and social identity.(2) The study shows significant difference in different gender, ethnicity and residence:the level of ethnic identity of male is higher than female, Hani higher than Yi, national habitation higher than non-national habitation.(3) Ethnic identity is a double-structured model, there is a separate structure between explicit and implicit ethnic identity.(4) There is no significant difference in implicit ethnic identity between minorities and non-minorities.(5) There is significant difference in separation of explicit and implicit ethnic identity between national habitation and non-national habitation, the separation of national habitation is larger.(6) Hani is alert to national representation picture, and Han is avoided in the national representation experiment, but there is no significant difference between the two of attention bias.(7) There is a significant difference in attention bias between different level of ethnic identity, high level of ethnic identity is higher than the low.