A Study On The Relationship Between Explicit And Implicit Social Tendency Of Junior Middle School Students

Gratitude the human positive emotion and prosocial tendency has been praised by people, while traditional research only limited outer level, exist in the unconscious level of implicit gratitude is also important. In early youth development and psychology is not mature enough of junior middle school students, so is very important for junior middle school students mental health education. This research adopts the gratitude of implicit association test (IAT) and adolescent gratitude scale (AGS) and the prosocial tendencies measure questionnaire (PTM),I select a certain junior high school of 75 students as subjects investigated, and the following research:(1) the junior middle school students were measured the explicit and implicit appreciate, and considering the correlation between two kinds of gratitude; (2) the measurement of junior middle school students prosocial tendencies, and examine respectively with the junior middle school students of explicit and implicit appreciate. The results show that:(1) The junior middle school students overall higher levels of explicit gratitude. Junior middle school students of different gender explicit total gratitude level there is no significant difference, but in the subscales of social and others to appreciate, there were significant differences. Different grade of junior high school students in the outside show total level, natural gratitude and others appreciate significant differences on the subscales. But on the subscales of social gratitude does not exist significant differences.(2) The the junior middle school students implicit gratitude effect significantly, the implicit effect value of 0.807. Junior high school students implicit gratitude does not exist significant differences in gender. But the significant difference in grade.(3) The junior middle school students in the implicit and explicit only appreciate scale was significantly associated with gratitude and others related coefficient is low, and the other subscales were no significant correlation, belong to different psychological construction.(4) The junior middle school students prosocial tendency overall level is higher. Junior high school students of different sex general level was not significant. But in the open, compliance, emotions, and significant differences exist in the emergency situation.In the context of anonymous and altruism does not exist significant differences. Different grade of junior high school students always tend to level, openness, anonymity, mood and emergency situation exists significant difference. In altruism and compliance situation does not exist significant differences.(5) The junior middle school students prosocial general level significantly associated with the explicit total gratitude level but the society gratitude is not significantly associated with anonymous and altruistic situation. Natural gratitude and public, altruism and emotional situation was not significant. Others gratitude is associated with the public situation was not significant.(6) Prosocial tendencies associated with implicit gratitude in junior high school students was not significant, the reason may be due to the prosocial tendencies scale belongs to self-report scale, to the obvious, and the subjects in the test is likely to have social credit tendency which affect the relationship.