The Aggression Characteristics Of Junior Middle School Students And Sandplay Intervention

Adolescent aggression caused widespread concern that has become a hot issue in sociology and psychology with the escalation of campus violence. Aggression is the possibility that produce the aggressive behavior, also the psychological characteristics of launching aggressive behaviors(Zhang,2004).There will produce the aggressive behavior if aggression is not well controlled. The aggressive can be divided into the explicit aggression and implicit aggression based on the Dual-Process Models of Social Information Processing(Gollwitzer, Banse, Eisenbach, & Naumann,2007; Richetin & Richardson,2008),the relationship of them is considered to be independent or the same, and received support from empirical researches respectively. The intervention of aggressive focuse on the explicit aggression recently. We explore the characteristics of aggressive in junior middle school students and the relationship of the explicit and implicit aggression firstly, and then to intervene the students having highly aggression using group sandplay in order to explore the intervention effectiveness of the sandplay.We measured the explicit and implicit aggression of 120 students using AQ and IAT. Selected 12 students having higher implicit and explicit aggression respectively based on the results, assigned 6 students to the intervention and the control group respectively, then the two intervention groups accepted intervention of two times group counseling and ten times standardized group sandplay. After the intervention, we collected the data of Post-test and delayed post- test of the 24 subjects at a week and two months later separately in order to test the immediate and long-term effects of group sandplay. At the same time, coded and analysised the theme of group sandplay of the first three and the last three times from two intervention groups. Results showed that the traumatic topics reduced and the healing themes increased significantly, proved the method is effective. The conclusions were as follows:(1) The expressions of explicit aggression are different in boys and girls.(2) The relationship of explicit and implicit aggression is independent in junior middle school students.(3) Group sandplay can all reduced the higher implicit and explicit aggression of junior middle school students significantly.