Research On The Relationship Among College Student’s Mindfulness, Self-control And Aggression

This research was based on mindfulness and self-control,which focused on the investigation of college students’ aggressive behaviors by using a combination of interviews and experiments. From the data and results, the research would give some implications for the institutions of universities to prevent college students’ aggression behaviors, which has practical and theoretical meaningfulness.Study one was the first trail to explore the relationship between mindfulness and two types of aggressions that are explicit aggression and implicit aggression.388 students in universities was recruited in this study. They were asked to finish Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire(FFMQ) and Aggression Questionnaire(AQ). Then 140 students of them were selected to take part in implicit aggression tese(IAT) randomly. Results show that:(1)The mindfulness of college students had no significant differences in terms of gender and whether a student is the only-child or not;(2)Students of different gender on the explicit aggression had no significant difference, however students of different gender on the implicit aggression had significant difference;(3)Students’ explicit aggression and implicit aggression have no significant differences in terms of whether a student is the only-child or not;(4)The mindfulness of college students was negatively correlated to explicit aggression and uncorrelated with implicate aggression;(5)Acting with awareness, nonreactivity, nonjudging and describing dimensions are correlated to explicit aggression,and they play a negative predictive role in explicit aggression.The second study was based on the Study one, and added the variable of self-control in order to basically investigate the mechanism of the relationship between mindfulness and explicit aggression. Results show that:(1)Mindfulness self-control were negatively correlated with aggression, and mindfulness was positively correlated with self-control;(2)The mindfulness and self-control are predicitors of aggression;(3)Self-control acted as a partially medium on the relationship between the mindfulness and agrression,mindfulness has a 51.9% impact on aggression through the self-control.The third study utilized dual task research paradigm, which analyzed the difference of explicit aggression among students who had different levels of mindfulness in high or low ego-depletion situation via the Stroop task. Results show that:(1) These participants who had lower mindfulness were influenced by the self-depletion situation; those who had higher mindfulness were out of the impaction of that situation.(2) The aggression of those who had higher mindfulness was lower than those who had lower mindfulness no matter what the self-depletion situation was.